{"id":31730,"date":"2016-11-06T03:46:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/what-happens-inside-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-changes-the-world"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:57","slug":"what-happens-inside-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-changes-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/what-happens-inside-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-changes-the-world","title":{"rendered":"What Happens Inside NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab Changes the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-happens-inside-nasas-jet-propulsion-lab-changes-the-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s talking about private industry getting humans on Mars. Mars trips! Mars houses! Mars colonies! But no one\u2019s going anywhere without the help of one brilliant, peculiar, fantastical space center\u2014NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab, which is behind almost every amazing feat in the history of space travel. August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At 2:00 a.m. in the blond hills of La Can\u0303ada Flintridge, California, one house stands lit among the others\u2014an open eye in a sleeping town. Bryn Oh, the woman who lives in the house, helps her son Devyn, eight, walk his bike to the parking lot of the high school across the street. Devyn, who just learned to ride, wobbles for a few minutes before pedaling furiously out into the darkness, letting off a whoop as he gets going. Bryn\u2019s older children, Ashlyn, ten, and Braden, thirteen, watch as he goes. David Oh, Bryn\u2019s husband and the reason they\u2019re all up at this uncivilized hour, isn\u2019t there to see it. He\u2019ll arrive home around 3:00 a.m., when he gets off work. Tomorrow will probably be closer to 3:40. Bryn has it all worked out on a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/a23666\/right-kind-of-crazy-nasa-jpl\/?src=socialflowFB\">http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/a23666\/right-kind-of-c...cialflowFB<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone\u2019s talking about private industry getting humans on Mars. Mars trips! Mars houses! Mars colonies! But no one\u2019s going anywhere without the help of one brilliant, peculiar, fantastical space center\u2014NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Lab, which is behind almost every amazing feat in the history of space travel. August 2012. At 2:00 a.m. in the blond hills [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65832,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31730\/revisions\/65832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}