{"id":1639,"date":"2008-12-30T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2008-12-29T14:53:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T18:53:39","slug":"space-exists-in-your-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Space Exists in Your Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nasahome.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Home\" title=\"NASA Home\" width=\"425\" height=\"213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nasahome.jpg 425w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nasahome-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/nasahome-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No, really.<\/p>\n<p>The space program is responsible for giving us a lot more than Tang.  The NASA site has a neat little Flash application that illustrates some of the ways that space exploration impacts our daily life.<\/p>\n<p>You can view various rooms in &#8220;NASA @ Home&#8221; and see everyday products which were developed as spinoffs of the space program.  &#8220;NASA City&#8221; lets you enter an airport, hospital, grocery store, and several other locations to view tools and machinery which had their beginnings with NASA.  Entering a location will pop up a menu of products which you can click on for a detailed description.<\/p>\n<p>The navigation interface takes a little getting used to, but it&#8217;s fun to surf around and see how many everyday items are offshoots of the space program.  It&#8217;s also good ammunition to show someone who questions whether we should keep funding NASA research.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/externalflash\/nasacity\/landing.htm\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/presurfer.blogspot.com\/\">The Presurfer<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. The space program is responsible for giving us a lot more than Tang. The NASA site has a neat little Flash application that illustrates some of the ways that space exploration impacts our daily life. You can view various rooms in &#8220;NASA @ Home&#8221; and see everyday products which were developed as spinoffs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}