{"id":65,"date":"2005-08-09T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2006-02-28T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T18:06:41","slug":"discovery-returns-safely-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/discovery-returns-safely-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery returns safely to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Shuttle Discovery has touched down successfully at Edwards Air Force Base in California at around 1312 BST (0512 PST; 1212 GMT) after bad weather forced it to land here instead of the intended Florida landing site, this was the first space shuttle mission since 2 years ago in 2003 when Columbia broke up on re-entry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"First Podcaster From Space\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2005\/08\/discoverycrew2005_small.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">Image above: The Return to Flight crew proudly stands in front of Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base. Credit: NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2005\/08\/discoverycrew2005.jpg\">(Larger Image)<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/4134986.stm\">BBC Article<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/returntoflight\/main\/index.html?skipIntro=1\">Return to Flight Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Shuttle Discovery has touched down successfully at Edwards Air Force Base in California at around 1312 BST (0512 PST; 1212 GMT) after bad weather forced it to land here instead of the intended Florida landing site, this was the first space shuttle mission since 2 years ago in 2003 when Columbia broke up on re-entry. Image above: The<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/discovery-returns-safely-to-earth\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discovery returns safely to Earth&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\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-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}