{"id":8942,"date":"2019-07-09T08:13:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2019-07-09T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:25:02","slug":"moon-reunion-fun-lunar-stuff-to-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/moon-reunion-fun-lunar-stuff-to-check-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Reunion: Fun lunar stuff to check out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we roll up on the 50th (!) anniversary of humanity visiting our biggest satellite:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lego has made a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.lego.com\/en-US\/product\/NASA-Apollo-11-Lunar-Lander-10266\">rad lunar lander<\/a>. (This would pair great with the <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.lego.com\/en-US\/product\/LEGO-NASA-Apollo-Saturn-V-21309\">Lego Saturn V<\/a> I have on display.)<\/li>\n<li>PBS has started airing the three-part\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/series-sell-chasing-moon\/\">Chasing the Moon<\/a>; looks excellent but I haven\u2019t yet gotten to watch.<\/li>\n<li>NYT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/05\/obituaries\/apollo-11-moon-obituaries.html\">Remembering Those Who Lived the Apollo 11 Mission<\/a>:\u00a0Portraits of people forever tethered to the moon landing.<\/li>\n<li>Now open to the public:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/89209\/After-50-Years-NASAs-Fully-Restored-Apollo-Mission-Control-Center-is-a-Perfect-Time-Capsule\">After 50 Years, NASA&#8217;s Fully-Restored Apollo Mission Control Center is a Perfect Time Capsule.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Moon Mapping: A new exhibit in London has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/historic-moon-maps-astronomy-exhibit\">300 years of celestial ephemera on display<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NewImage-2.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"598\" height=\"337\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we roll up on the 50th (!) anniversary of humanity visiting our biggest satellite: Lego has made a rad lunar lander. (This would pair great with the Lego Saturn V I have on display.) PBS has started airing the three-part\u00a0Chasing the Moon; looks excellent but I haven\u2019t yet gotten to watch. NYT Remembering Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}