{"id":22193,"date":"2017-10-28T17:50:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/A-cogent-argument-for-space-exploration"},"modified":"2017-10-28T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T17:50:35","slug":"a-cogent-argument-for-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/10\/28\/a-cogent-argument-for-space-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"A cogent argument for space exploration."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>A cogent argument for space exploration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Winchell Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stuhlinger soon sent the following letter of explanation to Sister Jucunda, along with a copy of &#8220;Earthrise,&#8221; the iconic photograph of Earth taken in 1968 by astronaut William Anders, from the Moon<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/08\/why-explore-space.html\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/08\/why-explore-space.html<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        A cogent argument for space exploration.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/10\/28\/a-cogent-argument-for-space-exploration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}