{"id":185373,"date":"2011-07-16T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/16\/with-the-space-shuttle-program-ending\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T10:02:00","slug":"with-the-space-shuttle-program-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/16\/with-the-space-shuttle-program-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"With the Space Shuttle Program Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me be contrarian, and say good riddance to bad rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on the HRS (Radiator for the International Space Station) and among its specifications was a <b>minimum<\/b> stowed size which was large enough to rule out any other launcher.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the many lame ass attempts by NASA to create a need for the most expensive, least reliable, and least safe launcher that they ever created.<\/p>\n<p>It was flayed in concept, it was flawed in execution, and it was flawed in basic architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me be contrarian, and say good riddance to bad rubbish. I worked on the HRS (Radiator for the International Space Station) and among its specifications was a minimum stowed size which was large enough to rule out any other launcher. It was one of the many lame ass attempts by NASA to create a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}