{"id":1007,"date":"2013-03-12T14:17:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:21:07","slug":"dennis-tito-apollo-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/history-2\/2013\/03\/dennis-tito-apollo-8\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dennis Tito might learn from Apollo 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/history-2\/2013\/03\/dennis-tito-apollo-8\/attachment\/img_6789_r1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1021\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1021 alignleft\" title=\"IMG_6789_r1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/files\/2013\/03\/IMG_6789_r1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Following the announcement of a privately-funded mission to fly around Mars and back I have written a post on the Huffington Post reflecting on the legacies of Apollo 8, the first manned journey to another world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #456789; padding: 12px; margin-bottom: 16px;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kendrick-oliver\/on-the-anniversary-of-apollo-8_b_2854178.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100px; float: left; margin: 0 12px 0 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/s.huffpost.com\/images\/v\/logos\/bpage\/science.gif?31\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kendrick-oliver\/on-the-anniversary-of-apollo-8_b_2854178.html\">On the Anniversary of Apollo 8<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nAnd so, with a single, masterful PR stroke, Mars has been restored to the reachable horizons of human spaceflight. Millionaire financier and engineer Dennis Tito has announced an optimistically budgeted plan to launch a middle-aged married couple on a flyby mission to the planet in early January 2018, returning them to Earth a year and a half later. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaderboarded.com\/home\/2012\/10\/creative-digifest-leaderboarded\/\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kendrick-oliver\/on-the-anniversary-of-apollo-8_b_2854178.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kendrick-oliver\/on-the-anniversary-of-apollo-8_b_2854178.html<\/a> (12th October)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Following the announcement of a privately-funded mission to fly around Mars and back I have written a post on the Huffington Post reflecting on the legacies of Apollo 8, the first manned journey to another world. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On the Anniversary of Apollo 8 And so, with a single, masterful PR stroke, Mars has been restored to the reachable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274967],"tags":[277929,277930,277931],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-2","tag-apollo-8","tag-huffington-post","tag-mars","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/humanitiesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}