{"id":315,"date":"2011-11-02T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2011-12-02T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T22:08:51","slug":"nasas-all-singing-all-dancing-rocketship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s all-singing, all-dancing rocketship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/space-launch-system.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Space Launch System on Launch Pad - Artist Rendition\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/65\/Art_of_the_Space_Launch_System_on_Launch_Pad.jpg\/800px-Art_of_the_Space_Launch_System_on_Launch_Pad.jpg\" alt=\"Space Launch System on Launch Pad - Artist Rendition\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy NASA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA is planning its most powerful rocket to date, a jack-of-all-trades vehicle intended to carry the American space program through a dizzying array of potential \u00a0missions.\u00a0Inheriting parts from the now-defunct space shuttle, its stillborn successor, Constellation, and the Saturn V workhorse that launched Americans to the moon, this modular monster is Senate-mandated to meet the requirements of\u00a0any mission NASA dreams up, from \u00a0near-Earth milk runs to \u00a0massive\u00a0undertakings like\u00a0Mars exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Can a single vehicle serve so many masters in so many ways, or will this phoenix turn out to be a turkey? Find out below \u2013\u00a0and then test your knowledge in the Big, Bad Space Launch System quiz.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/space-launch-system.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How the Space Launch System Will Work<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/space-launch-system-quiz.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Blastoff! The Big, Bad Space Launch System Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is planning its most powerful rocket to date, a jack-of-all-trades vehicle intended to carry the American space program through a dizzying array of potential \u00a0missions.\u00a0Inheriting parts from the now-defunct space shuttle, its stillborn successor, Constellation, and the Saturn V workhorse that launched Americans to the moon, this modular monster is Senate-mandated to meet the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=315\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s all-singing, all-dancing rocketship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,94,29,3,57,13],"tags":[149,153,152,79,151,154,148,155,147,150],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-engineering","category-quiz","category-science","category-space","category-technology","tag-constellation","tag-mars","tag-mpcv","tag-nasa","tag-orion","tag-politics","tag-saturn-v","tag-senate","tag-space-launch-system","tag-space-shuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}