{"id":587,"date":"2008-02-07T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/go-stan"},"modified":"2008-02-07T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:46:59","slug":"go-stan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/go-stan","title":{"rendered":"Go, Stan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my high-school classmates is headed into space today. Dr. Stanely Love is Mission Specialist 4 on STS-122, scheduled to launch today at 2:45PM EST. There&#8217;s live video coverage <a title=\"NASA TV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/live_tv_rd.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and tons of info about the mission <a title=\"STS-122 Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts122\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, from which I grabbed this photo of Stan [I don&#8217;t know whether he goes by Stan or Stanley these days&#8211;I knew him as Stan, but that was 25 years ago] during training:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"298\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/image-1.jpg\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our high school wasn&#8217;t a particularly nice place if you happened to not be in the &#8220;in&#8221; crowd, and Stan most definitely wasn&#8217;t in that crowd. (I wasn&#8217;t either. You probably guessed that.) Well, here we are, 25 years later, and Stan&#8217;s an astronaut, about to do what he&#8217;s dreamed of doing since he was a kid. I&#8217;d love to know how many of the &#8220;in&#8221; crowd are still in Eugene pumping gas or something. (Chris told me a very gratifying story awhile ago about returning to his home town a year or so ago and discovering that his high-school football champ was still pumping gas at the same place he worked when he was in high school.)<\/p>\n<p>Safe flight, Stan. Chalk one up for the nerds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my high-school classmates is headed into space today. Dr. Stanely Love is Mission Specialist 4 on STS-122, scheduled to launch today at 2:45PM EST. There&#8217;s live video coverage here and tons of info about the mission here, from which I grabbed this photo of Stan [I don&#8217;t know whether he goes by Stan&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/go-stan\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Go, Stan!<\/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-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}