{"id":624475,"date":"2019-07-18T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624475"},"modified":"2019-07-18T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T12:00:39","slug":"meet-john-houbolt-he-figured-out-how-to-go-to-the-moon-but-few-were-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=624475","title":{"rendered":"Meet John Houbolt: He Figured Out How To Go To The Moon, But Few Were Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/gettyimages-971068140_wide-778a8730a5ad3e949b1b61b06765fc70a22eb3d2.jpg\" alt=\"American aerospace engineer John Houbolt as he stands at a chalkboard in July 1962 showing his lunar orbit rendezvous plan for landing astronauts on the moon.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the early 1960s, NASA was considering three different ideas for landing a man on the lunar surface. Houbolt&#8217;s plan ultimately won out despite concerns within NASA that it was too risky.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/LARC\/Bob Nye\/PhotoQuest\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-21.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/18\/739934923\/meet-john-houbolt-he-figured-out-how-to-go-to-the-moon-but-few-were-listening?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet John Houbolt: He Figured Out How To Go To The Moon, But Few Were Listening<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 1960s, NASA was considering three different ideas for landing a man on the lunar surface. Houbolt&#8217;s plan ultimately won out despite concerns within NASA that it was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624475","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=624475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624475\/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=624475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=624475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=624475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}