{"id":3033,"date":"2007-10-04T08:12:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2007-10-04T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T08:12:06","slug":"sputnik_50_a_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3033","title":{"rendered":"Sputnik 50: A talk with the BBC&#8217;s Reg Turnhill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/04\/217761\/video-sputnik-50-the-bbcs-reg-turnill-talks-exclusively-to-flightglobal.com-about-reporting-on-sputn.html\">Rob Coppinger<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Reg Turnill was working for the BBC in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the World&#8217;s first orbiting artifical satellite.<br \/>\nTurnill went on to cover the space race and travelled to the Soviet Union for the press conference following cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin&#8217;s orbital flight and eventually was based in the US to cover NASA&#8217;s Moon programme.<br \/>\nHe got to know the German rocket engineer Werner von Braun, who had developed the Nazi V-2 weapon, and also came to know many of the US astronauts.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Video<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Coppinger: Reg Turnill was working for the BBC in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the World&#8217;s first orbiting artifical satellite. Turnill went on to cover the space race and travelled to the Soviet Union for the press conference following cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin&#8217;s orbital flight and eventually was based in the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}