{"id":801,"date":"2007-01-04T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T11:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2007-01-04T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T11:38:43","slug":"the_best_in_space_2006_edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/04\/the_best_in_space_2006_edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best in Space, 2006 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For any fellow space buffs who may be reading my humble ramblings, I&#8217;ve compiled some end-of-year retrospectives that you may find interesting:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emily at the Planetary Society offers up her <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/news\/2007\/0102_The_Year_in_Pictures_2006.html\">Year in Pictures<\/a>, highlighting a few of the awesome photos we&#8217;ve seen in the past 12 months. (You may recognize some of them as shots I posted here, or at least linked to. There are also a couple &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/explore\/topics\/mars\/year2006_viking_landers.html\">this<\/a> one and <a href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/explore\/topics\/mars_global_surveyor\/year2006_fresh_gullies.html\">this<\/a> one &#8212; that I&#8217;ve meant to blog about but haven&#8217;t gotten around to.)\n<li>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a>, Phil Plait has his own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/bablog\/2006\/12\/27\/the-top-ten-astronomy-images-of-2006\/\">Top Ten Astronomy Images<\/a> entry, which overlaps somewhat with Emily&#8217;s but also includes several different items. (Emily&#8217;s bailiwick is here in our own system, while Phil&#8217;s range of interest spans considerably farther outward.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/space.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn10855\">Here<\/a> is a nice recap of The Year in Human Spaceflight. Between three shuttle flights, continuing construction on the International Space Station, planning for the post-shuttle era, and private efforts like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigelowaerospace.com\/index.html\">Bigelow&#8217;s inflatable space hotel<\/a>, it was a busy year indeed&#8230;\n<li>William Burrows &#8212; not to be confused with <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_S._Burroughs\">William Burroughs<\/a> &#8212; has a list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/weekend\/fivebest\/?id=110009458\">Five Best Space Books<\/a>, which includes astronaut Jim Lovell&#8217;s outstanding memoir of the Apollo 13 disaster, <i>Lost Moon<\/i>, and Phil Plait&#8217;s <i>Bad Astronomy<\/i>.\n<li>Curious about what&#8217;s coming up in the way of space missions for 2007? I haven&#8217;t seen anything on manned flights, but Emily has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00000814\/\">rundown<\/a> of the robotic missions, at least&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For any fellow space buffs who may be reading my humble ramblings, I&#8217;ve compiled some end-of-year retrospectives that you may find interesting:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","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\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}