{"id":225289,"date":"2015-02-20T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123439450"},"modified":"2015-02-20T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:19:44","slug":"10-gps-myths-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225289","title":{"rendered":"10 GPS myths: Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123439450\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2014\/06\/140428-F-WR604-006.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>GPS has been broadcasting signals for nearly 40 years. During that time, a number of myths, misconceptions, conspiracies and falsehoods that have been raised. Let&#8217;s examine 10 common myths surrounding GPS. This list is presented in no particular order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The U.S. military controls GPS <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Top GPS Facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/document\/AFD-150217-061.jpg\" style=\"width: 310px; height: 224px; float: right;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GPS is operated by the 2nd and 19th Space Operations Squadrons at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado; however, the U.S. Government owns GPS and the program is paid for by U.S. taxpayers. According to GPS.gov, GPS receives &#8220;national-level attention and guidance from a joint civil\/military body called the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing.&#8221; The committee is co-chaired by the Deputy Secretaries of Defense and Transportation.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123439450\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}