{"id":7415,"date":"2019-03-21T07:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T07:15:33","slug":"less-waste-in-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/03\/21\/less-waste-in-space-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Less waste in space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was good to see Egon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket return to Earth the other day by landing the right way up on a floating platform. \u00a0The video of it is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lEr9cPpuAx8\">here<\/a><\/strong>, along with a few clips of instances where this didn't quite go as well, and a nice explanation of the issues involved. \u00a0It's good to see this reduction in waste. \u00a0The manoeuvre reminded me of the comics I used to read as a boy when rockets always did this. \u00a0Nice to know that real technology has finally caught up with tech-fi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was good to see Egon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket return to Earth the other day by landing the right way up on a floating platform. \u00a0The video of it is here, along with a few clips of instances where...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}