{"id":1868,"date":"2019-09-06T09:13:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:16:58","slug":"read-this-book-burning-the-sky-by-mark-wolverton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/read-this-book-burning-the-sky-by-mark-wolverton\/","title":{"rendered":"Read this book: Burning the Sky by Mark Wolverton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Real quick, I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t mentioned this year (mostly because I don&#8217;t have free time), but you should read Mark Wolverton&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2UB3sDd\">Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grglstr-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1468314173\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Burning-Sky-Operation-Untold-Nuclear\/dp\/1468314173\/ref=as_li_ss_il?keywords=mark+wolverton+burning+the+sky&amp;qid=1567775065&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-5&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=grglstr-20&amp;linkId=bbdf2ee1469e317be31547a3458778ed&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1468314173&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=grglstr-20&amp;language=en_US\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"229\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a great read&#8211;an incredible true story that I absolutely didn&#8217;t know about until picking up the book. Great if you like science, history, crazy Greek scientists, and science history. <br><br>It also explains the death of Telstar, which alone is worth your time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ryrEPzsx1gQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real quick, I can&#8217;t believe I haven&#8217;t mentioned this year (mostly because I don&#8217;t have free time), but you should read Mark Wolverton&#8217;s Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space It is a great read&#8211;an incredible true story that I absolutely didn&#8217;t know about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-u8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}