{"id":1706,"date":"2008-09-29T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T13:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:29:38","slug":"set-the-controls-for-the-heart-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/set-the-controls-for-the-heart-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Set the controls for the heart of the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the best job, in (or off) the world, ever?<\/p>\n<p>About midday today\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7639548.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a space ship will crash \/ has crashed into the Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago the Jules Verne space truck ferried a load of cargo up to the International Space Station. It has been docked there ever since, slowly filling up with the ISS\u2019s rubbish. Now it will take its final plunge, overseen by the European Space Agency\u2019s freighter control centre in Toulouse.<\/p>\n<p>This means there is someone in France, right now,\u00a0whose job is to crash spaceships.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this person, and why isn\u2019t it me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the best job, in (or off) the world, ever? About midday today\u00a0a space ship will crash \/ has crashed into the Pacific. Six months ago the Jules Verne space truck ferried a load of cargo up to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/set-the-controls-for-the-heart-of-the-sun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pensees","tag-spaceships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}