{"id":358,"date":"2004-10-05T07:13:12","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=358"},"modified":"2004-10-05T07:13:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T13:13:12","slug":"spaceshipone-wins-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/10\/05\/spaceshipone-wins-x-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceShipOne wins X-Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new age has dawned for spaceflight!<\/p>\n<p>According to numerous sources, my favorite being <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2004\/10\/1004_041004_spaceshipone_xprize.html\">National Geographic <\/a>in this case, SpaceShipOne has won the X-Prize.  What does that mean?  It means that a privately built single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft has been built and successfully launched into space twice within a week.  And, if you don&#8217;t understand the implecations of that, well&#8230;  Well, I can&#8217;t imagine anyone who could find this blog on the web and not have some idea what that accomplishment means.  Maybe I will see a mission to mars succeed in my lifetime.  I might even see extraterrestrial mining.  The possibilities are limitless.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new age has dawned for spaceflight! According to numerous sources, my favorite being National Geographic in this case, SpaceShipOne has won the X-Prize. What does that mean? It means that a privately built single-stage-to-orbit spacecraft has been built and successfully launched into space twice within a week. And, if you don&#8217;t understand the implecations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,28,30],"tags":[500],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-extraterrestrial-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}