{"id":1683,"date":"2011-02-20T00:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T21:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:05:33","slug":"25-years-20th-feb-1986-ussr-launched-mir-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/25-years-20th-feb-1986-ussr-launched-mir-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"25 years ago (20th Feb. 1986): The USSR launched the Mir space station."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Soviets have opened a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world&#8217;s biggest space station, Mir.<\/p>\n<p>The successful launch of Mir comes just over three weeks after the American space shuttle Challenger disaster, in which seven astronauts died&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/february\/20\/newsid_4713000\/4713752.stm\">more<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Soviets have opened a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world&#8217;s biggest space station, Mir. The successful launch of Mir comes just over three weeks after the American space shuttle Challenger disaster, in which seven astronauts died&#8230;.more&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-r9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}