{"id":293961,"date":"2010-02-08T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5466564"},"modified":"2010-02-08T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T13:20:10","slug":"the-last-nighttime-launch-of-the-space-shuttle-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293961","title":{"rendered":"The Last Nighttime Launch of the Space Shuttle [Space]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- videoId: W-aDSv494v4 --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/W-aDSv494v4&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: W-aDSv494v4 --> If there&#8217;s something more spectacular than a space shuttle launch that&#8217;s a night shuttle launch. Sadly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5465914\/stay-awake-for-the-last-nighttime-shuttle-launch-ever\">last one<\/a> happened tonight. Happily, it was filmed in perfect high definition. Endeavour carries another last thing too:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/372500main_sspf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_372500main_sspf.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is NASA&#8217;s last module for the space station. Called Tranquility, the 21-foot long, 14-foot wide module will be facing Earth, connected to the Unity node. It will provide with an additional dock port for the space shuttle&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5023085\/space-shuttle-final-flight-programmed-may-31-2010\">soon to be canned<\/a>&mdash;and other crew spacecrafts. It will also bring one of the most entertaining features for astronauts, who spend 90% of their free time looking at Earth: Tranquility includes an attachment called Cupola, a huge view port with seven windows, six on the sides and one on top.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_282127main_66849main_cupola1_lg.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Make sure to watch the video in HD<\/i><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=dedc46ecc1bee8a63850d981511b3906&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=dedc46ecc1bee8a63850d981511b3906&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SRVtP44Hjl0:MTSZ9hPJaHk:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SRVtP44Hjl0:MTSZ9hPJaHk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SRVtP44Hjl0:MTSZ9hPJaHk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=SRVtP44Hjl0:MTSZ9hPJaHk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=SRVtP44Hjl0:MTSZ9hPJaHk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=SRVtP44Hjl0:MTSZ9hPJaHk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/SRVtP44Hjl0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s something more spectacular than a space shuttle launch that&#8217;s a night shuttle launch. Sadly, the last one happened tonight. Happily, it was filmed in perfect high definition. Endeavour carries another last thing too: This is NASA&#8217;s last module for the space station. Called Tranquility, the 21-foot long, 14-foot wide module will be facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}