{"id":602,"date":"2010-11-02T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/alan\/2010\/11\/where-will-your-imagination-take-you.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:40","slug":"where-will-your-imagination-take-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2010\/11\/where-will-your-imagination-take-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Where will your imagination take you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia, home to some of SE Asia&#8217;s poorest people, a history of warfare and mass graves, and undiscovered minefields, can now lay claim to one of the cheapest space projects of all time. The space-borne payload, named Preah Atet (&#8220;The Sun&#8221;) by a local high school student, was a 20&#215;30 cm Styrofoam box containing a digital camera that flew for 2.5 hours underneath a helium balloon before parachuting back to earth. Click on the image to see the 5-minute (edited) video of Preah Atet&#8217;s journey. Read more about Preah Atet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/vol330\/issue6002\/r-samples.dtl#330\/6002\/301-c\"><b>here<\/b><\/a> (<i>Science<\/i>, 15 Oct 2010, <i>330<\/i>, 301, Random Samples, &#8220;From Cambodia, With Helium&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/opbdCambo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cambodia_from_space.png\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/files\/personal\/cambodia_from_space.png\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" height=\"233\" width=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia, home to some of SE Asia&apos;s poorest people, a history of warfare and mass graves, and undiscovered minefields, can now lay claim to one of the cheapest space projects of all time. The space-borne payload, named Preah Atet (&quot;The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2010\/11\/where-will-your-imagination-take-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,16],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imagination","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}