{"id":670,"date":"2020-10-02T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=670"},"modified":"2020-10-02T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T01:34:08","slug":"head-to-the-spaceport-and-book-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/10\/02\/head-to-the-spaceport-and-book-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Head to the Spaceport and Book Passage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mars-Moon_10-2-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forget Covid. Forget politics. Go outside tonight if you have any kind of clear sky and a view to the southeast and southwest\u2014even if it\u2019s between the trees and buildings. To the southeast, Mars and the Moon are about to fall into a dangerous, non-distancing embrace. They are spectacular together, with or without city light pollution. And to the southwest, Jupiter and Saturn continue to dance brightly (well, Jupiter is bright, Saturn is less so) at arm\u2019s length.<\/p>\n<p>I saw them all while walking the dogs (I couldn\u2019t even see any stars), and was thrown right back to the 1950s and early 1960s, when the solar system was a simpler place, and we just knew that in another fifty years, we\u2019d be able to head down to the Atom City Spaceport and hop on a luxury space-liner to any of those places. Those were the days! The Golden Era of Space Travel (as it should have been)!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Stand-by-for-Mars-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Stand by for Mars cover\" width=\"226\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Covid. Forget politics. Go outside tonight if you have any kind of clear sky and a view to the southeast and southwest\u2014even if it\u2019s between the trees and buildings. To the southeast, Mars and the Moon are about to fall into a dangerous, non-distancing embrace. They are spectacular together, with or without city light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,7,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-experiences","category-sciencefiction","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}