{"id":52136,"date":"2011-07-21T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52136"},"modified":"2011-07-21T06:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T13:41:40","slug":"my-other-car-is-a-space-shuttle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=52136","title":{"rendered":"My other car is a Space Shuttle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One minute you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re accelerating into space, the next you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re behind the wheel of your family car. How does space travel affect what &#8211; and how &#8211; astronauts drive?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When the final Space Shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, astronauts waved goodbye to 17,300mph travel and a journey strapped to a 526,000-gallon fuel tank.<\/p>\n<div class=\"secondPar\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>After 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes and 50 seconds &#8211; not to mention 200 orbits around Earth during a journey of 5,284,862 miles &#8211; Atlantis landed safely, marking the end of the Shuttle programme.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More than 600 men and woman have rocketed into orbit since the first Shuttle launch in 1981. But how do they get the same adrenalin rush here on Earth?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/motoring\/news\/8631908\/My-other-car-is-a-Space-Shuttle....html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One minute you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re accelerating into space, the next you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re behind the wheel of your family car. How does space travel affect what &#8211; and how &#8211; astronauts drive? When the final Space Shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 21, astronauts waved goodbye to 17,300mph travel and a journey strapped to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52138,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52136\/revisions\/52138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}