{"id":6,"date":"2001-10-03T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2001-10-03T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=6"},"modified":"2020-08-17T00:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T04:25:29","slug":"pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who are those astronauts that appear in the titles of <cite>Enterprise<\/cite>? I&#8217;ve been having fun trying to identify them. The title sequence includes these shots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A test pilot in front of his plane, walking toward the camera. His face isn&#8217;t terribly clear, but it could be Gus Grissom. (On the other hand, this may not be an astronaut at all. Maybe it&#8217;s Chuck Yeager. Hard to tell.)<\/li><li>A close-up of a smiling astronaut wearing the characteristic &#8220;Snoopy cap&#8221; of the Apollo program. I&#8217;m almost certain it&#8217;s Alan Shepard, suiting up for Apollo 14.<\/li><li>An Apollo crew during launch. The helmets make faces hard to identify, but I believe the one closest to the camera is Jim Lovell. He flew on two Apollo missions, but in this shot he&#8217;s in the commander&#8217;s seat, and that means Apollo 13.<\/li><li>A fully suited Apollo crew walking down a corridor on their way to the launch pad. It&#8217;s impossible to make out faces, but I&#8217;ll bet this is the crew of Apollo 11.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Update: At least one of these guesses turned out to be <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=171\">wrong<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are those astronauts that appear in the titles of <em>Enterprise<\/em>? I&#8217;ve been having fun trying to identify them.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=6\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}