{"id":98,"date":"2007-03-19T07:53:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-03-19T20:02:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T01:02:44","slug":"fingers-crossed-to-form-a-little-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/19\/fingers-crossed-to-form-a-little-spacex\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingers Crossed (to form a little SpaceX)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Space X<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates.php#demoflight_2_launch_update_8\" target=\"_blank\">attempting to launch Falcon 1 today<\/a>. The launch had been previously scheduled for sometime in January. Their first &#8220;demoflight&#8221; in 2006 didn&#8217;t go so well. Here&#8217;s hoping.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The flight readiness review conducted tonight shows all systems are go for a launch attempt at 4pm California time (11pm GMT) tomorrow (Monday). The webcast can be seen at spacex.com\/webcast.php and will start at T-60 minutes. Please check back for updates, as the launch will be postponed if we have even the tiniest concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a praying man, but I&#8217;d be tempted to start a novena if it would help. The future depends on folks like Elon Musk. I mean, between Space X and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslamotors.com\/index.php?js_enabled=1\" target=\"_blank\">TeslaMotors<\/a>, the PayPal dude has a lock on the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Srubtastic! Eh, maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space X is attempting to launch Falcon 1 today. The launch had been previously scheduled for sometime in January. Their first &#8220;demoflight&#8221; in 2006 didn&#8217;t go so well. Here&#8217;s hoping. The flight readiness review conducted tonight shows all systems are go for a launch attempt at 4pm California time (11pm GMT) tomorrow (Monday). The webcast [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}