{"id":3025,"date":"2009-09-16T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:29:23","slug":"how-to-save-a-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/09\/16\/how-to-save-a-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"How to save a $billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Keep the government well away.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A fellow photographer sent me this amusing article about how a pair of MIT students put a camera in space for &#8230; $150. <\/p>\n<p>Their cost was about $1 billion less than NASA has cost the US taxpayer so far. <\/p>\n<p>Click the picture for more:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2009\/09\/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget?npu=1&#038;mbid=yhp target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/MIT_kids.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep the government well away. A fellow photographer sent me this amusing article about how a pair of MIT students put a camera in space for &#8230; $150. Their cost was about $1 billion less than NASA has cost the US taxpayer so far. Click the picture for more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36522,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/36522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}