{"id":383,"date":"2012-03-24T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2012-03-24T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:06:50","slug":"space-is-a-dangerous-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/space-is-a-dangerous-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Space is a dangerous place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something unusual happened on the International Space Station today. The astronauts all got into rockets in case they had to leave the station and return to Earth. Why? Because a piece of space junk was heading their way and they weren&#8217;t sure if it was going to hit the station.<\/p>\n<p>What does space junk consist of? Whole or pieces of satellites and rockets, as well as fragments from collisions and explosions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/story\/2012\/03\/24\/space-junk-russia.html\">Space junk forces astronauts into escape pods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space junk is a serious problem &#8212; there are thousands of large pieces and millions of small pieces of junk orbiting the Earth. Even small pieces can damage a satellite or spacecraft. The problem has been around for a while but nothing&#8217;s been done so far. So what are we going to do about it? Here&#8217;s one possibility: Swiss scientists are working on a &#8220;janitor satellite&#8221; that will go around collecting junk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/story\/2012\/02\/15\/swiss-build-janitor-satellites.html\">Swiss satellite will clean up space junk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something unusual happened on the International Space Station today. The astronauts all got into rockets in case they had to leave the station and return to Earth. Why? Because a piece of space junk was heading their way and they weren&#8217;t sure if it was going to hit the station. What does space junk consist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,35],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}