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There are lots of space-related activities still going on, both in the US and (especially, it seems) abroad, but that sense of &#8230; well, <i>endeavor,<\/i> seems to have left us as a national, if not racial, priority.<\/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%2Ffarm9.staticflickr.com%2F8441%2F8010065380_19577dd30a_z.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.hyperborea.org\/journal\/2012\/09\/endeavour\/'>Watching Endeavour\u2019s Final Flight Through LA | K-Squared Ramblings<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHalf of the people at my office turned out to watch the space shuttle&#39;s final flight around Los Angeles.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/1ke3psa2s5X' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to see this, as the end of an era (as Margie said she&#39;d seen it put, &quot;an open casket funeral for the space age&quot;). There are lots of space-related activities still going on, both in the US and (especially, it seems) abroad, but that sense of &#8230; well, endeavor, seems to have left us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/the-last-landing-of-endeavor.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Last Landing of &quot;Endeavor&quot;&#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-30295","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":178,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/03\/jokes.html","url_meta":{"origin":30295,"position":0},"title":"Jokes","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Jun-03 4:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had a humor mailing list for a few years now (FYA, For Your Amusement). 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