{"id":484,"date":"2008-04-08T22:20:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T12:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2008-04-08T22:20:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T12:20:41","slug":"there-goes-the-cosmic-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"There goes the cosmic neighbourhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: South Korea have successfully launched their first astronaut into orbit<\/p>\n<p>The bad news: The rocket is a Hyundai, gearbox went out after 50,000km<\/p>\n<p>The result: Capsule was torched for the insurance, burned out hulk now in orbit around moon<\/p>\n<p>Kidding, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/04\/08\/2211431.htm?section=justin\">South Korean astronaut<\/a> went up on a Russian Soyuz, from Baikonur as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Russians STILL have no sense of style.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/buran002.jpg\" title=\"bizarro space shuttle\" alt=\"bizarro space shuttle\" height=\"268\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buran_%28spacecraft%29\">Buran<\/a> 002 space shuttle is to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/main\/index.html\">real deal<\/a> what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/comics\/?cm=8981\">Superman<\/a> is to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bizarro\">Bizarro<\/a>&#8230; Everything swoopy in the (still rather lumpy) US space shuttle is blockish and weird in the Buran. I actually thought this was a spoof- perhaps a city bus in space shuttle camouflage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stranger yet is the copy of the US layout now that the US shuttle program is wrapping up and returning to a vertically stacked rocket configuration for human spaceflight as the side mounted fuel tank seems to get a little bit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Challenger\">explodey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_shuttle_columbia\">loss-of-foamish causing poor flying characters<\/a> occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>Time marches on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: South Korea have successfully launched their first astronaut into orbit The bad news: The rocket is a Hyundai, gearbox went out after 50,000km The result: Capsule was torched for the insurance, burned out hulk now in orbit around moon Kidding, the South Korean astronaut went up on a Russian Soyuz, from Baikonur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}