{"id":683563,"date":"2021-03-09T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683563"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T21:32:14","slug":"allan-mcdonald-dies-at-83-tried-to-stop-the-challenger-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=683563","title":{"rendered":"Allan McDonald Dies at 83; Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An engineer for the company responsible for the shuttle\u2019s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take off, concerned that cold weather might affect them. He was right.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/09\/us\/allan-mcdonald-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Allan McDonald Dies at 83; Tried to Stop the Challenger Launch<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New York Times Space &amp; Cosmos&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An engineer for the company responsible for the shuttle\u2019s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take off, concerned that cold weather might affect them. He was right.&#013; &#013; &#013; Click&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-times-space-cosmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683563","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=683563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683563\/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=683563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}