{"id":28577,"date":"2012-07-14T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T06:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/the-final-years-of-the-space-shuttle.html"},"modified":"2012-07-14T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T06:39:57","slug":"the-final-years-of-the-space-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/the-final-years-of-the-space-shuttle.html","title":{"rendered":"The final years of the Space Shuttle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of excellent reasons for the Space Shuttle program to end. \u00a0What makes me (and so many others) sad is not that its 70s-80s technology meant that it had to be retired, but that we did so without something active to take its place.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Frawfile%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fspace-shuttle-2%2FWired_10.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2012\/07\/a-new-look-at-the-end-of-the-space-shuttle-program\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=socialmedia&#038;utm_campaign=twitterclickthru&#038;pid=2985'>Stirring Photos Chronicle the Final Years of the Space Shuttle Program | Raw File | Wired.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhilip Scott Andrews&#39; ongoing photo series Last Days documents the end of NASA&#39;s space shuttle program. 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Embedded Link Stirring Photos Chronicle the Final Years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/the-final-years-of-the-space-shuttle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The final years of the Space Shuttle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/the-last-flight-of-enterprise.html","url_meta":{"origin":28577,"position":0},"title":"The last flight of Enterprise","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Apr-12 10:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool series of large pix of the space shuttle prototype flying around the NYC area. 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