{"id":1117,"date":"2014-12-06T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/launch-of-the-new-orion-rocket\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:52:51","slug":"launch-of-the-new-orion-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/launch-of-the-new-orion-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of the new Orion rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEuOpxOrA_0?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>The Saturn V was, of course, far more impressive and beautiful. But the Orion is pretty cool. When I was looking at the drawings depicting the various stages of the spacecraft, that Apollo-shaped capsule brought back some deep memories. I was 10 years old when Apollo 11 launched. <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1969Album4233-1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1969Album4233-1.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"339\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <b>A page from the scrapbook I made during the flight of Apollo 11. <\/b><\/div>\n<p> Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saturn V was, of course, far more impressive and beautiful. But the Orion is pretty cool. When I was looking at the drawings depicting the various stages of the spacecraft, that Apollo-shaped capsule brought back some deep memories. I was 10 years old when Apollo 11 launched. A page from the scrapbook I made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2014\/12\/06\/launch-of-the-new-orion-rocket\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Launch of the new Orion rocket&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}