{"id":15438,"date":"2015-07-14T19:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T02:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2017-04-25T03:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:58:06","slug":"how-to-plan-the-ultimate-long-term-project-from-the-team-who-got-us-to-pluto-by-daniel-terdiman-fast-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/how-to-plan-the-ultimate-long-term-project-from-the-team-who-got-us-to-pluto-by-daniel-terdiman-fast-company","title":{"rendered":"How to plan the ultimate long-term project, from the team who got us to Pluto \u2014 By Daniel Terdiman | Fast Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/3048515-inline-s-9-new-horizons-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One thing you don\u2019t expect when planning a nine-year mission to the most distant planet in our solar system is the eventuality that Pluto might not be a planet once you got there.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that\u2019s exactly what went down in 2006. That January, NASA launched its unmanned New Horizons probe, a baby grand piano-sized, 1,054-pound spacecraft, on the first-ever route to Pluto. Then, in August 2006, the International Astronomical Union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/2791-pluto-demoted-longer-planet-highly-controversial-definition.html\" target=\"_blank\">demoted Pluto<\/a> to the diminutive status of \u201cdwarf planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3048515\/how-to-plan-the-ultimate-long-term-project-from-the-team-who-got-us-to-pluto\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you don\u2019t expect when planning a nine-year mission to the most distant planet in our solar system is the eventuality that Pluto might not be a planet once you got there. Yet that\u2019s exactly what went down in 2006. That January, NASA launched its unmanned New Horizons probe, a baby grand piano-sized, 1,054-pound [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1514],"tags":[734,138],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-space-travel","tag-nasa","tag-pluto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51500,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions\/51500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}