{"id":3881,"date":"2011-07-07T11:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2011-07-07T09:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:40:48","slug":"memories-of-the-shuttle-and-the-blind-spot-of-aviation-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/memories-of-the-shuttle-and-the-blind-spot-of-aviation-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of the shuttle and the blind spot of aviation history"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For those who flew on the shuttle, it was the experience of a lifetime. No other rocket has carried astronauts into space and flown them back down through the red hot glow of the heated atmosphere to touch down like a glider on a runway<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apart from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_American_X-15\">X-15<\/a>. Everyone forgets the X-15 (and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scaled_Composites_SpaceShipOne\">SpaceShipOne<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who flew on the shuttle, it was the experience of a lifetime. No other rocket has carried astronauts into space and flown them back down through the red hot glow of the heated atmosphere to touch down like a glider on a runway Apart from the X-15. Everyone forgets the X-15 (and SpaceShipOne).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[2534,2536,2533,2535],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","tag-space-shuttle","tag-spaceshipone","tag-sts","tag-x-15","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-10B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}