{"id":9656,"date":"2012-04-18T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/shuttle-discovery-arrives-in-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:01:19","slug":"shuttle-discovery-arrives-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/shuttle-discovery-arrives-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuttle Discovery Arrives in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nasa3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/nasa3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732673917346941106\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I was out on the national mall yesterday morning to watch the Shuttle Discovery (atop a 747) fly over Washington DC en route to Dulles Airport and the Smithsonian Museum. Having watched Discovery when it was in orbit it was kind of bittersweet to see it go by this way. The event reminded me of going out to Hyde Park in London to watch the final overflight of the Concorde SSTs.<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shuttleDC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shuttleDC.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5732675536434543826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>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>I was out on the national mall yesterday morning to watch the Shuttle Discovery (atop a 747) fly over Washington DC en route to Dulles Airport and the Smithsonian Museum. Having watched Discovery when it was in orbit it was kind of bittersweet to see it go by this way. The event reminded me of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/shuttle-discovery-arrives-in-washington\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shuttle Discovery Arrives in Washington&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,82,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-satellites","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","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=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9659,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}