{"id":124,"date":"2006-12-18T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/nasa-tv-amazes-me\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T20:43:29","slug":"nasa-tv-amazes-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/nasa-tv-amazes-me","title":{"rendered":"NASA TV Amazes Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/live_tv.html\">NASA TV<\/a> live coverage of the astronauts trying to free the stuck solar panels on the ISS. The broadcast is switching back and forth between the helmet-mounted cameras on the astronauts&#8217; suits and the station&#8217;s cameras. I&#8217;m trying to imagine what it would be like to be perched on the end of the robotic arm extended from the space station, trying to concentrate on freeing a stuck piece of lord-knows-how-expensive hardware while cruising along in space miles above the Earth. I&#8217;ve decided that I can&#8217;t really imagine it.\n<\/p>\n<p>These folks amaze me every time I watch. The precision, the communication, the overall level of engineering is just unparalleled. Sure, NASA has made some very serious mistakes, but when they&#8217;re on the ball, they&#8217;re so on the ball it&#8217;s scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, I&#8217;m watching NASA TV live coverage of the astronauts trying to free the stuck solar panels on the ISS. The broadcast is switching back and forth between the helmet-mounted cameras on the astronauts&#8217; suits and the station&#8217;s cameras. I&#8217;m trying to imagine what it would be like to be perched on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/nasa-tv-amazes-me\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA TV Amazes Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}