{"id":249,"date":"2008-11-15T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-11-15T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:54:42","slug":"sts-126-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/sts-126-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"STS-126 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We got a car pass and watched Endeavour launch last night on STS-126 from the NASA Causeway viewing site. It was awesome!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/01-elijahwaitingpatiently1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-254\" title=\"01-elijahwaitingpatiently1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/01-elijahwaitingpatiently1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/01-elijahwaitingpatiently1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/01-elijahwaitingpatiently1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elijah waits patiently for the launch.\u00a0 We got there almost 2 hours beforehand.\u00a0 Notice the nearly full moon out the window.\u00a0 A beautiful and clear night for a launch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sts-126_liftoff_from_nasa_causeway.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-251\" title=\"sts-126_liftoff_from_nasa_causeway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sts-126_liftoff_from_nasa_causeway-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sts-126_liftoff_from_nasa_causeway-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sts-126_liftoff_from_nasa_causeway.jpg 1578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we have liftoff!\u00a0 The picture doesn&#8217;t do it justice, because it lights up the night sky as if it were daylight!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/05-watchingitfly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-252\" title=\"05-watchingitfly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/05-watchingitfly-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/05-watchingitfly-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/05-watchingitfly.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We could see it almost all the way down to the horizon.\u00a0 Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a car pass and watched Endeavour launch last night on STS-126 from the NASA Causeway viewing site. It was awesome! Elijah waits patiently for the launch.\u00a0 We got there almost 2 hours beforehand.\u00a0 Notice the nearly full moon out the window.\u00a0 A beautiful and clear night for a launch. \u00a0 And we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,108],"tags":[76,36,139,278,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}