{"id":220,"date":"2007-10-26T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2007-10-26T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T20:54:12","slug":"20071026-nova-scotia-to-build-space-tourist-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/26\/20071026-nova-scotia-to-build-space-tourist-launchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/10\/26 Nova Scotia to Build Space Tourist Launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a cool story! article from Slashdot.org:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/science\/07\/10\/26\/199227.shtml\">Nova Scotia to Build Space Tourist Launchpad<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"details\">  \t \t<strong>Posted by \t \t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/%7EZonk\/\">Zonk<\/a>  \ton Friday October 26, @04:15PM<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>from the <strong>going-up-eh<\/strong> dept.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"topic\"> \t\t \t\t \t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/search.pl?tid=160\"> \t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicspace.gif\" alt=\"Space\" title=\"Space\" height=\"59\" width=\"73\" \/> \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"> \t\t\tIdentity Missing writes <em>&#8220;Lockheed Martin is planning on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/nova-scotia\/story\/2007\/10\/26\/launch-pad.html\">building a commercial spaceport in Nova Scotia Canada<\/a>. The details are a bit shaky, but apparently the project is serious enough to attract 45 million dollars from the Federal government. The launch pad will specifically be built in Cape Breton, a mostly rural island characterized by low employment, thick colloquial accents, and kitchen fiddle parties. A PDF is available with pictures and a description of the planned orbital glider, the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetspace.org\/pdf\/PressRelease121505.pdf\">Silver Dart<\/a>,&#8217; somewhat lacking the aesthetics of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/\">X Prize winner<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"body\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a cool story! article from Slashdot.org: Nova Scotia to Build Space Tourist Launchpad Posted by Zonk on Friday October 26, @04:15PM from the going-up-eh dept. Identity Missing writes &#8220;Lockheed Martin is planning on building a commercial spaceport in Nova Scotia Canada. The details are a bit shaky, but apparently the project is serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}