{"id":396,"date":"2011-12-14T11:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2011-12-14T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:08:27","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_397\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/space.desktopnexus.com\/wallpaper\/366966\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-397 \" title=\"Apollo 11 Launch Pad\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/366966-1366x768-apollo-eleven-1280x800-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo 11 Launch Pad\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/366966-1366x768-apollo-eleven-1280x800-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/366966-1366x768-apollo-eleven-1280x800-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/366966-1366x768-apollo-eleven-1280x800.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apollo 11 on the  launch pad (LC-39A)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Complex 39 includes two pads, A &amp; B. Although today they&#8217;re associated most frequently with the Space Shuttle program, they were designed originally for the massive Saturn V rockets used during the Apollo program. On November 9, 1967, Apollo 4 became the first rocket to launch from LC-39A. A total of twelve Saturn V rockets were sent up from that pad. In contrast, LC-39B saw only one Saturn V, the one used to launch Apollo 10 on \u00a0May 18, 1969. The Apollo 10 mission was a test drive of sorts, the last test mission before NASA made the final leap to the moon with Apollo 11.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper marks the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. As with most big news events, everyone has a story to tell about the launch and lunar landing. My story is quite short, as I was only two years old at the time. I remember my father reaching out from where he was sitting in front of the television, lifting me onto his lap, and saying, &#8220;Watch this, Susie, this is important.&#8221; There are many other things he did and said that affected the way I live(d) my life, but I suspect that one moment determined more than either of us could have guessed at the time (especially me&#8212;what does a toddler know?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Launch Complex 39 includes two pads, A &amp; B. Although today they&#8217;re associated most frequently with the Space Shuttle program, they were designed originally for the massive Saturn V rockets used during the Apollo program. On November 9, 1967, Apollo 4 became the first rocket to launch from LC-39A. A total of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observatories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}