{"id":11127,"date":"2019-07-15T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2019-07-13T17:11:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T22:11:19","slug":"apollo-11-at-50-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/apollo-11-at-50-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 at 50: The beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11128\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SatellitePlaque.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SatellitePlaque.jpg 435w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SatellitePlaque-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 29, 2009:<\/strong> Outside a low-rise midcentury government building, Cape Canaveral, Florida. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmspacemuseum.org\/halloffame\/detail.php?id=86\">Iowa connection: James Van Allen.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been to just about every major installation related to the Space Race that isn&#8217;t in California. At both Cape Canaveral and Huntsville, I signed up for the longest, most extensive tours available. At both Cape Canaveral and Huntsville, I could have been nearly everyone else on the tour&#8217;s child. I wish I would have had a camcorder to tape the trip and what the guides said. But I have many, many photos of the structures, long past their time, that were used to propel the United States from before NASA began to when Americans landed on the moon. I saw control panels and consoles with lights and buttons and switches that would look at home in\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em>, because <em>Star Trek<\/em> got its inspiration for\u00a0lights and buttons and switches from the real world to create what today is the past&#8217;s vision of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures from Cape Canaveral can be seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/roadtrips\/Florida2009\/Florida2009.html\">my photo album from my 2009 vacation to Florida<\/a>. <em>(The management is fully aware that the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/roadtrips.html\">road trip photo galleries page<\/a> is both neglected in promotion and not updated for a decade. \u2014 Ed.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 29, 2009: Outside a low-rise midcentury government building, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Iowa connection: James Van Allen. I have been to just about every major installation related to the Space Race that isn&#8217;t in California. At both Cape Canaveral and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/apollo-11-at-50-the-beginning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11130,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}