{"id":1211,"date":"2009-06-15T23:26:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T04:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2009-06-15T23:29:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T04:29:02","slug":"whats-wrong-with-this-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090615_011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090615_011.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s wrong with this picture indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This picture was taken early this afternoon, looking out the hanger\/warehouse\/workshop where we&#8217;ve headquartered and are putting together all our stuff.\u00a0 Outside this building is the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert.\u00a0 This is June.\u00a0 It is supposed to be bright and sunny.\u00a0 Instead it&#8217;s overcast and there is a forecast of rain.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it has cancelled any chance we had of doing a test flight tomorrow.\u00a0 This means that\u00a0this testflight\u00a0will happen, at the earliest, on Wednesday.\u00a0 This also means that an already tight schedule has gotten even tighter.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m VERY GLAD that the NASA people here are truly a &#8216;can do&#8217; crowd.\u00a0 They want to make this happen and are pulling out all the stops to do so.\u00a0 So, being late will be a problem, not a potential disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Rain in the Mojave in June?<\/p>\n<p><em>(click on the picture thumbnail for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s wrong with this picture indeed&#8230; This picture was taken early this afternoon, looking out the hanger\/warehouse\/workshop where we&#8217;ve headquartered and are putting together all our stuff.\u00a0 Outside this building is the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert.\u00a0 This is June.\u00a0 It is supposed to be bright and sunny.\u00a0 Instead it&#8217;s overcast and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}