{"id":8444,"date":"2024-09-12T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=8444"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T16:30:46","slug":"spacex-polaris-dawn-spacewalk-its-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/spacex-polaris-dawn-spacewalk-its-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Polaris Dawn Spacewalk: It&#8217;s a Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I said a couple weeks back, this isn&#8217;t what I&#8217;ll be talking about this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission is a big deal. It&#8217;s a commercial mission, a test flight: there&#8217;s more about it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polaris_Dawn\">Polaris Dawn<\/a> Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching this video while eating lunch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jd2ZcpirFew?si=Jr_0DB3Uz1NdN9iX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, I&#8217;ll get back to getting this week&#8217;s &#8216;Saturday&#8217; post ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked, briefly, about Polaris Dawn before; and, not-briefly, about space exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of the usual &#8216;more stuff&#8217; link list, here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/tag\/space-exploration\/\">space exploration<\/a> tag; and you can check out A Catholic Citizen in America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/#block-117\">Tag Cloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched this 9:09 video, showing part of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk, while eating lunch. Includes a quotable sound bite. <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/spacex-polaris-dawn-spacewalk-its-a-big-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[39,28],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","tag-space-exploration","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2cc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}