{"id":678,"date":"2007-11-07T02:41:06","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T07:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=678"},"modified":"2018-08-15T20:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T00:33:20","slug":"15350-%c2%a0%c2%a0-timothy-kyger-the-international-space-station-iss-past-present-and-future-%e2%80%94-a-critique%c2%a0-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"15350.&nbsp;(Timothy Kyger) The International Space Station (<span class=\"caps\">ISS<\/span>): Past, Present, and Future \u2014 A Critique&nbsp;[article]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If, like me, you\u2019ve been con\u00adfused by <span class=\"caps\">NASA<\/span>\u2019s con\u00adstantly shift\u00ading plans for a space sta\u00adtion, this brief arti\u00adcle will clear up the fog. Those of us who grew up want\u00ading to see a sus\u00adtained and log\u00adi\u00adcal pro\u00adgram of space explo\u00adration, not for imme\u00addi\u00adate polit\u00adi\u00adcal and social motives, but for the long-term ben\u00ade\u00adfit of the human race, have always expe\u00adri\u00adenced some frus\u00adtra\u00adtion with <span class=\"caps\">NASA<\/span>. It\u2019s as if we were gen\u00aduinely reli\u00adgious peo\u00adple who dis\u00adcov\u00adered that their church was more inter\u00adested in pro\u00admot\u00ading bin\u00adgo and church bazaars than in serv\u00ading god. Tim\u2019s paper pro\u00advides many details that explain why manned space explo\u00adration has had such a lurch\u00ading, unsat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtory progress. Unmanned space explo\u00adration, by com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson, has a his\u00adtory of rel\u00ada\u00adtively smooth, log\u00adi\u00adcal pro\u00adgres\u00adsion. Hope\u00adfully, Tim will write anoth\u00ader paper to explain why this is&nbsp;so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, like me, you\u2019ve been con\u00adfused by <span class=\"caps\">NASA<\/span>\u2019s con\u00adstantly shift\u00ading plans for a space sta\u00adtion, this brief arti\u00adcle will clear up the fog. Those of us who grew up want\u00ading to see a sus\u00adtained and log\u00adi\u00adcal pro\u00adgram of space exploration,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=678\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bt-reading-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}