{"id":3314,"date":"2012-05-25T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2012-05-25T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T23:21:03","slug":"docking-maneuvers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"Docking Maneuvers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the SpaceX team, whose Dragon capsule<\/a> became the first privately owned vehicle to dock with the International Space Station. The day when “space trucker” is a viable career option can’t be too far in the future. Perhaps SpaceX can be persuaded to become one of the first official corporate sponsors of the oft-postponed zero-g deathmatch between me and Stephen Hawking. We thought we had a commitment from Google, but then Hawking had to go and make a snide tweet comparing Google+ to the emptiness of space. So much for British cordiality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to the SpaceX team, whose Dragon capsule became the first privately owned vehicle to dock with the International Space Station. The day when “space trucker” is a viable career option can’t be too far in the future. Perhaps SpaceX can be persuaded to become one of the first official corporate sponsors of the oft-postponed […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-10-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Rs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}