{"id":2914,"date":"2004-07-20T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2021-06-04T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:31:58","slug":"tranquility-base-here-the-eagle-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/07\/20\/tranquility-base-here-the-eagle-has-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tranquility Base here. The <i>Eagle<\/i> has landed.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 10px;\"><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/moonfootprint.jpg?resize=250%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" style=\"border: 3px solid #000;\"\/><\/div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Tonight marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/space\/07\/16\/moon.landing\/\">link to CNN story<\/a>). You can relive that historic moment through the video and audio files at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/vision\/space\/features\/apollo11_35th.html\">NASA&#8217;s 35<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary site<\/a>. Other material is still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hq.nasa.gov\/office\/pao\/History\/ap11ann\/introduction.htm\">their 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary site<\/a> (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hq.nasa.gov\/office\/pao\/History\/ap11ann\/galleries.htm\">this photo gallery<\/a>). The <i>pi&egrave;ce de r&eacute;sistance<\/i> is at <b>Panoramas.dk<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramas.dk\/moon\/apollo-11.html\">Neil Armstrong&#8217;s 360&#176; view the lunar surface<\/a>. It&#8217;s almost hard to imagine now a time when American technology and rocket power united the globe, and were used &#8220;in peace for all mankind.&#8221; &nbsp; <b>[3:41 PM]<\/b><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Update<\/b>: according to <b>Science@NASA<\/b>, one of Apollo 11&#8217;s lunar experiments <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2004\/21jul_llr.htm?list1067162\">is still in use today<\/a>.\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Tonight marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (link to CNN story). You can relive that historic moment through the video and audio files at NASA&#8217;s 35th Anniversary site. Other material is still available at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/07\/20\/tranquility-base-here-the-eagle-has-landed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2916,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}