{"id":1473,"date":"2009-11-16T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/16\/go-at-throttle-up"},"modified":"2009-11-16T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T19:31:00","slug":"go-at-throttle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Go at throttle up &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The shuttle Atlantis has just launched, with six more shuttle missions to go before NASA retires the fleet.<\/p>\n<p>So help me, ever since Jan. 28, 1986, I still freeze at the 73-second mark of these shuttle flights. That&#8217;s when the mission communicator tells the shuttle, &#8220;Go at throttle up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was at that point during that January launch nearly 24 years ago that the shuttle Challenger blew up, killing all seven astronauts on board and sending the nation into a prolonged period of profound grief over its loss.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantis has entered orbit. All is well. And I&#8217;ve cleared the lump in my throat.<\/p>\n<p>It will return at the end of the mission, when the ship re-enters the atmosphere en route home. History reminds us that on Feb. 1, 2003, Amarillo&#8217;s very own Rick Husband and his crew died when the shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas on its way home.<\/p>\n<p>These space flights perhaps have bored millions of Americans. That&#8217;s too bad. They surely are never &#8220;routine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, crew of Atlantis.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shuttle Atlantis has just launched, with six more shuttle missions to go before NASA retires the fleet. So help me, ever since Jan. 28, 1986, I still freeze at the 73-second mark of these shuttle flights. That&#8217;s when the mission communicator tells the shuttle, &#8220;Go at throttle up.&#8221; It was at that point during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Go at throttle up &#8230;&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}