{"id":58,"date":"2007-12-06T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/the-big-op\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T18:34:44","slug":"the-big-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"The Big Op"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"The Big Operation\" href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/spaceflightop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image57\" alt=\"The Big Operation\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/spaceflightop.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was our biggest desert operation. In June of 1999 we flew a rockoon to 72,000 feet in Black Rock, Nevada. Between the team, family and reporters there was over 70 people on the roster. The care and feeding of such a big crew for five days was more challenging than the mission itself.<\/p>\n<p>We run much small crews in the field now. A team of around ten seems just about right. Although those five days back in 1999 were amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was our biggest desert operation. In June of 1999 we flew a rockoon to 72,000 feet in Black Rock, Nevada. Between the team, family and reporters there was over 70 people on the roster. The care and feeding of such a big crew for five days was more challenging than the mission itself. We [&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-58","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\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}