{"id":139099,"date":"2022-05-09T08:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/jpl-the-space-age-to-the-rescue"},"modified":"2022-05-09T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:03:03","slug":"jpl-the-space-age-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/jpl-the-space-age-to-the-rescue","title":{"rendered":"JPL &amp; the Space Age: To the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JPL and the Space Age: To the Rescue\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cVrRzGbV9Mk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JPL &amp; the Space Age: To the Rescue.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 1990, Hubble meant trouble. The highly touted space telescope was designed to escape Earth\u2019s blurry atmosphere to capture unparalleled visual images of the universe, but its creators were shocked to discover that a minuscule flaw rendered it nearsighted.<\/p>\n<p>Enter NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers, who offered up an ingenious solution to Hubble\u2019s visual woes. But would it work?<\/p>\n<p>Hubble wasn\u2019t the only space misadventure getting JPL\u2019s attention during the 1990s: The Magellan spacecraft, nicknamed \u201cSalvage 1\u201d for its reliance on spare parts, barely survived its arrival at Venus. Galileo, destined for Jupiter, barely skirted failure when its main communications antenna refused to unfurl. And Mars Observer, the first mission to the Red Planet in nearly two decades, would mysteriously disappear just before going into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the Rescue\u201d explores these iconic examples of the tireless effort and indomitable ingenuity of JPL engineers as they attempt to rescue the machines they had lofted into the heavens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/jpl-the-space-age-to-the-rescue\">Continue reading \u201cJPL &amp; the Space Age: To the Rescue\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JPL &amp; the Space Age: To the Rescue. In 1990, Hubble meant trouble. The highly touted space telescope was designed to escape Earth\u2019s blurry atmosphere to capture unparalleled visual images of the universe, but its creators were shocked to discover that a minuscule flaw rendered it nearsighted. Enter NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139099","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}