{"id":2295,"date":"2012-03-29T13:57:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2012-03-29T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:57:23","slug":"awesome_space_image_of_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/29\/awesome_space_image_of_the_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Space Image of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thrusters-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2550 aligncenter\" alt=\"thrusters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thrusters-263x300.png\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a snap of an unmanned cargo ship &#8212; technically referred to in NASA-speak as an Automated Transfer Vehicle &#8212; firing its maneuvering thrusters as it approached the International Space Station yesterday. This image was taken by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ISS, and I think it&#8217;s simply incredible. Even just a few years ago, you could only see something like this on a fictional TV show like <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> or <em>Babylon 5<\/em>, but here it is, actually happening right over our heads, captured on a perfectly ordinary digital camera and posted to both Twitter and Flickr like any old photo of somebody&#8217;s cat. The future hasn&#8217;t turned out to be quite what we were promised as kids, but every once in a while, it comes close.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fragileoasis\/sets\/72157629695730367\/with\/7027163461\/\">here<\/a> for a couple more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a snap of an unmanned cargo ship &#8212; technically referred to in NASA-speak as an Automated Transfer Vehicle &#8212; firing its maneuvering thrusters as it approached the International Space Station yesterday. This image was taken by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ISS, and I think it&#8217;s simply incredible. Even just a few years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}