{"id":129756,"date":"2021-10-31T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T00:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-is-the-radical-tech-nasa-needs-to-focus-on-says-october-sky-engineer"},"modified":"2021-10-31T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T00:22:17","slug":"this-is-the-radical-tech-nasa-needs-to-focus-on-says-october-sky-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-is-the-radical-tech-nasa-needs-to-focus-on-says-october-sky-engineer","title":{"rendered":"This is the radical tech NASA needs to focus on, says \u2018October Sky\u2019 engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U1g2aSj9ZTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Homer Hickam is the author of Rocket Boys, the book that inspired the film October Sky. The NASA engineer reveals why he thinks the agency should focus on nuclear rockets and other ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s why. Homer Hickam is the author of Rocket Boys, the book that inspired the film October Sky. The NASA engineer reveals why he thinks the agency should focus on nuclear rockets and other ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}