{"id":2710,"date":"2011-02-03T18:52:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2011-02-03T18:52:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T18:52:30","slug":"landing-advice-from-an-astronaut-circa-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"Landing Advice from an Astronaut circa 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ira J. Thurston describing descending from a grand ascension aboard the aerial ship &#8220;Adrian&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mere experience is by no means sufficient; for men may ascend for hundreds of times and still keep bungling on to the end. There must be a judgment to interpret its suggestions, and a coolness to apply them; penetration to embrace all that is requisite at a view and a quickness in calculating the results; prudence to avoid danger, and courage to confront it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From an interview, Daily Watchtower (Newspaper) August 28, 1859<\/p>\n<p>In the very early days of flight &#8220;aerialists&#8221; probed the heights in coal gas filled balloons. Their exploits are nearly forgot, but they were among the first to reach into the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ira J. Thurston describing descending from a grand ascension aboard the aerial ship &#8220;Adrian&#8221;. &#8220;Mere experience is by no means sufficient; for men may ascend for hundreds of times and still keep bungling on to the end. There must be a judgment to interpret its suggestions, and a coolness to apply them; penetration to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}