{"id":2692,"date":"2009-08-20T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123164280"},"modified":"2009-08-20T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:49:00","slug":"no-1-with-the-record-to-prove-it-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"No. 1: With the record to prove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123164280\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/090821-F-0000M-003.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A little short of two decades ago &#8211; Oct. 1, 1990 to be exact &#8211; the 1st Space Launch Squadron &#8211; known as &#8220;The First&#8221; &#8212; was activated. Tuesday morning at Hangar R at the Cape, their colors were cased for the last time during a bitter-sweet inactivation ceremony.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the last 19 years, The First has been the Air Force poster-child for space launch. I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve seen a picture of a GPS Delta II &#8212; with its fierce shark eyes &amp; teeth &#8212; being launched on the walls and media around the Air Force and DOD,&#8221; said Col. Lee Rosen, commander, 45th Launch Group.&#160;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123164280\">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-2692","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\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/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=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}