{"id":34430,"date":"2026-10-02T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=34430"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:02","slug":"crew-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/crew-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew 13\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/100226-crew13_1-e1791236750671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are heroes among us, and they have been revealed in the heavens above in this astonishing series of Big Weeks! As we enter Autumn&#8217;s winds of change, we can look back on hundreds of years of accomplishments, advances and the sense wonder at the arrival of a leap into a future that is partly human and partly something completely new in the history of our species.<\/p>\n<p>It apparently also comes complete with metaphors. Within the few years since 1903, humankind has gone from a powe1red flight of a few seconds and a few dozen feet in distance to dreaming of colonizing Luna and starting up shop on Mars!<\/p>\n<p>This year, we have dispatched astronauts to circle the Moon and examine some of the options for constructing a an operational base from which they can observe our home planet and begin the challenge of conquering them immensity of the sky..<\/p>\n<p>Andthink about ordinary heroes, like the Captain of a Boeing jet, who in one brief moment went from calm workmanship aviating to fighting for his life- and the lives of 170 passengers in a desperate struggle to open the cockpit door dripping in blood.<\/p>\n<p>For all those who answer the unexpected call- and may we echo their sacrifice if called upon in the days to come! For ordinary people who become extraordinary heroes- we salute you!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Vic Socotra<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are heroes among us, and they have been revealed in the heavens above in this astonishing series of Big Weeks! As we enter Autumn&#8217;s winds of change, we can look back on hundreds of years of accomplishments, advances and the sense wonder at the arrival of a leap into a future that is partly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34433,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions\/34433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}