“So, you got summer plans?” John asked me as he cut my hair.<\/p>\n
“Actually, we do,” I said. “We just made a motel reservation in Florida for the last Shuttle launch.”<\/p>\n
He was silent for a moment.<\/p>\n
“What do you mean, last<\/em>?” he asked.<\/p>\n “The last Shuttle launch. We’re going to try to see it.”<\/p>\n “But what do you mean the last launch?<\/em> They’re stopping the Shuttle?”<\/p>\n “Yes.”<\/p>\n I was nodding. He was silent again.<\/p>\n “You mean for all NASA?<\/em>“<\/p>\n I wasn’t sure how to answer the question, but I knew what he was trying to ask.<\/p>\n “The Shuttle flight in June will be the very last one.”<\/p>\n “Ever?”<\/p>\n “Ever. There will be no others.”<\/p>\n “But … how will … what about getting astronauts into space?”<\/p>\n “The plan is to launch them on Russian rockets.”<\/p>\n He was silent yet again.<\/p>\n “Wow,” he said. “I didn’t know that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “So, you got summer plans?” John asked me as he cut my hair. “Actually, we do,” I said. “We just made a motel reservation in Florida for the last Shuttle launch.” He was silent for a moment. “What do you mean, last?” he asked. “The last Shuttle launch. We’re going to try to see it.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}