{"id":495,"date":"2009-04-14T06:42:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T06:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:42:10","slug":"a-long-time-ago-in-a-galaxy-far-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it seems.  This year is our 30 anniversary.  I&#8217;m still hoping to make a big deal about it, however,  there&#8217;s barely enough time to keep up with the present!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some pics from &#8220;A Long Time ago&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Ascender 175 Frame and Propeller\" href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Ascender175prop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image494\" alt=\"Ascender 175 Frame and Propeller\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Ascender175prop.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is the frame and port propeller of the 175 foot long Ascender.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Inside Ascender 175\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/inside_Ascender175.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inside Ascender 175\" id=\"image496\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/inside_Ascender175.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInside the Ascenders nylon shell.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Aubrey and Away 9\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Aubrey_and_Away9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aubrey and Away 9\" id=\"image497\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Aubrey_and_Away9.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is my son Aubrey taking a landing site picture of Away 9 while the Away 9 vehicle is taking a picture of him. This is from May 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Away 9 on board camera\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Away9onboard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Away 9 on board camera\" id=\"image498\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/Away9onboard.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is from Away 9 camera about 40 minutes before the above shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or so it seems. This year is our 30 anniversary. I&#8217;m still hoping to make a big deal about it, however, there&#8217;s barely enough time to keep up with the present! Here&#8217;s some pics from &#8220;A Long Time ago&#8221;: This is the frame and port propeller of the 175 foot long Ascender. Inside the Ascenders [&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-495","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\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}