{"id":4708,"date":"2014-05-19T06:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2014-05-19T06:38:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:38:40","slug":"monday-book-pick-a-new-american-space-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/monday-book-pick-a-new-american-space-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: A New American Space Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1451638655\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><b>A New American Space Plan<\/b><\/a> by Travis Taylor, Ringleader of the Rocket City Rednecks<\/p>\n<p>NASA rocket scientist and self identified redneck, Travis Taylor, has a plan for getting America back into space.<\/p>\n<p>Which is something America really needs right now, for many reason which Doctor Taylor lists in this book. \u00a0Here is one that he wrote about, and has come to pass. \u00a0The US currently has no method of getting Astronauts to the Space Station and back. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?cat=240\">Our current President<\/a>\u00a0put the budget for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/exploration\/systems\/mpcv\/\">Orion program<\/a> on life support. \u00a0I guess that is G.W. Bush&#8217;s fault, since the program started when he was President, so Barry felt he had to kill it. \u00a0His solution was to outsource American jobs to Russia. \u00a0In case you haven&#8217;t been paying attention, the US government pays Russia to get US Astronauts to the Space Station and back. \u00a0Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/russia\/10828964\/Russia-to-ban-US-from-using-Space-Station-over-Ukraine-sanctions.html\">the Russian are saying Nyet to that<\/a>. \u00a0 It&#8217;s a good thing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/527131\/intergalactic-entrepreneurs-prepare-for-blast-off\/\">the private sector is stepping up<\/a>, but this is a problem we didn&#8217;t need to have.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike this post, Travis Taylor&#8217;s book is mostly upbeat and positive. \u00a0 It should also be read\u00a0in American high school science classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New American Space Plan by Travis Taylor, Ringleader of the Rocket City Rednecks NASA rocket scientist and self identified redneck, Travis Taylor, has a plan for getting America back into space. Which is something America really needs right now, for many reason which Doctor Taylor lists in this book. \u00a0Here is one that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,56,30],"tags":[165,532,695,720,759],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-space-tech","category-technology","tag-book","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1dW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}