{"id":282,"date":"2006-06-30T18:55:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2006-07-01T21:47:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-02T02:47:02","slug":"scuttle-the-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Scuttle the shuttle!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-frontier.org\/PressReleases\/2006\/20060629scuttleshuttle.html\">salvo<\/a> from the Space Frontier group, urging Congress to take the money currently allocated towards finishing the Shuttle missions (approximately $20 billion, according to them) and redirect it towards commercial development of space.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to argue with that logic.\u00a0 I was a fan of the shuttle for a long time, not so much because I thought the Shuttle was the be-all and end-all of space delivery systems, but it was SOMETHING that kept a US presence in space.\u00a0 But the Columbia disaster really changed my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradleyedwards.info\">Brad Edwards<\/a> could do with $20 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest salvo from the Space Frontier group, urging Congress to take the money currently allocated towards finishing the Shuttle missions (approximately $20 billion, according to them) and redirect it towards commercial development of space. It&#8217;s hard to argue with that logic.\u00a0 I was a fan of the shuttle for a long time, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}