{"id":2020,"date":"2008-05-29T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:11:45","slug":"the-space-shuttle-makes-me-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/the-space-shuttle-makes-me-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Space Shuttle Makes Me Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering today, &#8220;What exactly is the purpose of the International Space Station and all those Space Shuttle trips for upkeep? Aren&#8217;t those flights really really really expensive?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A pretty convincing answer comes from Maciej Ceg?owski. In short: <strong>government space-cheese<\/strong>. They could be doing potentially useful things, but instead &#8220;&#8230;the skeleton crew on the ISS has been fixing toilets, debugging laptops, changing batteries, and speaking to the occasional elementary school over ham radio.&#8221; I want my ten billion dollars back.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really good article. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlewords.com\/2005\/08\/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm\">Read A Rocket to Nowhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering today, &#8220;What exactly is the purpose of the International Space Station and all those Space Shuttle trips for upkeep? Aren&#8217;t those flights really really really expensive?&#8221; A pretty convincing answer comes from Maciej Ceg?owski. In short: government space-cheese. They could be doing potentially useful things, but instead &#8220;&#8230;the skeleton crew on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-reading-watching-listening","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","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=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}