{"id":1205195,"date":"2023-11-21T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205195"},"modified":"2023-11-21T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T20:21:40","slug":"with-budget-cuts-and-an-aging-station-can-nasa-learn-to-love-a-gap-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205195","title":{"rendered":"With budget cuts and an aging station, can NASA learn to love a gap in orbit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/space_station_over_earth-640x425-1.jpg\" alt=\"Humans have lived aboard the International Space Station for more than two decades. \" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\">Humans have lived aboard the International Space Station for more than two decades.  (credit: NASA)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Just in case you were under any illusions about the age of the International Space Station, Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Zarya module. This Russian-built power and propulsion module formed the cornerstone of the space station, and the first residents arrived two years later.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, some hardware on the space station has now been in the harsh environment of outer space for a quarter of a century. Questions about how long it can last are, increasingly, more than theoretical.<\/p>\n<p>NASA has been grappling with how to move on from the International Space Station for some time. There is a general sense that, given that we&#8217;ve had humans living in low-Earth orbit for more than two decades, it would be good to keep that streak going.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1985836#p3\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1985836&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1985836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With budget cuts and an aging station, can NASA learn to love a gap in orbit?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have lived aboard the International Space Station for more than two decades. (credit: NASA) Just in case you were under any illusions about the age of the International Space Station, Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1205196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1205195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1205196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}