{"id":3286,"date":"2009-09-23T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123169339"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:18:00","slug":"icbms-the-basis-of-all-systems-in-space-part-2-of-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"ICBMs: the basis of all systems in space (Part 2 of 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123169339\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/060711-F-0000X-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Space Pioneer, Col. Francis J. Hale said it best&#8230;&#8221;When a group of young, talented people with a few good and enlightened leaders are given a task and allowed to run with it, amazing things can happen. &#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A German American rocket physicist and astronautics engineer, Wernher von Braun, and his team of German scientists and engineers provided the initial nucleus of the ballistic missile program. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In it to win it&#8217;, the Air Force launched a study in 1951 toward the development of a two-stage ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 nautical miles. The study marked the beginning of the Atlas Missile Program. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123169339\">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-3286","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\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3375"}],"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=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}