{"id":586,"date":"2004-10-04T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2004-10-04T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T22:10:09","slug":"xprize_winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"X-Prize Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/041004\/041004_spaceshipone_10a.h2.jpg\"><br \/>\nWay to go, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/index.htm\">Burt Rutan &#038; the folks at scaled<\/a>!<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a useful question for all of our federal candidates:  Why not save the billions we&#8217;re spending on the antique space shuttles and redirect it to math &#038; science education.  It&#8217;s clear that the era of hugely expensive manned flight is nearing an end.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.org\/webcast\/webcast.php\">Video&#8230;.<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6167761\/\">Alan Boyle<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=SpaceShipOne\">Clusty<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=SpaceShipOne&#038;sourceid=mozilla-search&#038;start=0&#038;start=0&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8\">Google<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/s.teoma.com\/search?q=SpaceShipOne&#038;qcat=1&#038;qsrc=0&#038;Search.x=9&#038;Search.y=11&#038;Search=submit\">Teoma<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?ei=UTF-8&#038;fr=sfp&#038;p=spaceshipone\">Yahoo<\/a><br \/>\nBryan Bell has posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanbell.com\/2004\/10\/01#a1180\">gorgeous images<\/a> from Monday&#8217;s flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way to go, Burt Rutan &#038; the folks at scaled! Here&#8217;s a useful question for all of our federal candidates: Why not save the billions we&#8217;re spending on the antique space shuttles and redirect it to math &#038; science education. It&#8217;s clear that the era of hugely expensive manned flight is nearing an end. Video&#8230;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}