{"id":1935,"date":"2008-04-16T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2008-04-18T13:57:21","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T21:57:21","slug":"i-had-an-out-of-this-world-experience-at-yuris-night-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/i-had-an-out-of-this-world-experience-at-yuris-night-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"I had an out of this world experience at Yuri&#8217;s Night 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"yuris-night-2008\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yuris-night-2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yuris-night-2008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"yuris-night-2008\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>At Yuri&#8217;s night 2008 at NASA Ames, they had a ride called ISS. They&#8217;d put you in this capsule and slingshot you up to the International Space Station. We were really lucky because since the Space Station is orbiting so fast, only a few riders each day can get to see it up-close. You can see the space station in the reflection of the glass. It was really pretty spectacular! Charlotte and I had a great time. If you ever get the chance, you should absolutely go!<\/p>\n<p>The fine folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/spacecoalition.com\/extremescenes.cfm\">Space Coalition<\/a> hung out in low earth orbit and took photos of us tourists all night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"yuris-night-ticket\" href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yuris-night-ticket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1953\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/yuris-night-ticket.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"yuris-night-ticket\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" align=\"none\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Yuri&#8217;s night 2008 at NASA Ames, they had a ride called ISS. They&#8217;d put you in this capsule and slingshot you up to the International Space Station. We were really lucky because since the Space Station is orbiting so fast, only a few riders each day can get to see it up-close. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-notable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}