{"id":12243,"date":"2015-03-28T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2015-03-23T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T21:55:31","slug":"the-first-spacewalk-nearly-ended-in-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=12243","title":{"rendered":"The First Spacewalk Nearly Ended In Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z032815dangerous_firstspacewalk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astronauts are modern day adventurers. The very first astronauts were that and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those first astronauts were insanely brave and willing to to take chances no man before them had the opportunity to attempt.\u00a0 Their space ships were small and the computers on board were less powerful than today&#8217;s average middle school student&#8217;s cell phone.\u00a0 Each journey into space was a life or death trip with national pride on the line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sadly, because the US became so proficient in sending people into space, as citizens we became complacent.\u00a0 Before the <strong>Challenger<\/strong> tragedy, many of the major stations stopped carrying shuttle launches live because people weren&#8217;t tuning in.\u00a0 Ah, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mika McKinnon&#8217;s<\/strong> post, <a href=\"http:\/\/space.io9.com\/50-years-ago-the-first-spacewalk-nearly-ended-in-trage-1692303108\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>50 Years Ago, The First Spacewalk Nearly Ended In Tragedy<\/strong><\/a> is an excellent piece that details just how many ways the first spacewalk nearly killed the cosmonauts completing the mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/space.io9.com\" target=\"_blank\">i09<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronauts are modern day adventurers. The very first astronauts were that and more. Those first astronauts were insanely brave and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12244,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}