{"id":31598,"date":"2025-06-01T01:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31598"},"modified":"2025-05-30T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T05:01:30","slug":"hand-in-glove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/hand-in-glove\/","title":{"rendered":"hand in glove"},"content":{"rendered":"
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two astronauts use a ‘glove box’ – photo by Don Pettit courtesy of CTV news<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In the summer of 1969, we were ecstatic to see on TV a B&W news short of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. For the first time ever man created enough energy in a rocket to break the hold of \u00a0gravity and float to our moon.<\/p>\n

Years earlier, in high school I learned that we needed a powerful enough rocket to off-set the pull of gravity before we could ‘escape’ to other worlds\/planets. People today seem blas\u00e9 about such feats, taking the international space station (ISS) in stride.<\/p>\n

For the photo at left the CTV news cut line reads, “Superb science: <\/span>Don Pettit captures the hands of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, left, and Suni Williams inside the Life Sciences Glovebox, a facility at the International Space Station. (Don Pettit\/NASA)”.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent email, my friend Clint (PHSC president, auctioneer, fair coordinator, HR department, columnist, etc. – and professional photographer) Sent this link to a CTV news article, “Through an astronaut\u2019s lens: Images from a photographer in space<\/a>” that displayed some of astronaut Don Pettit’s photos. Take a peek at them – definitely other-worldly …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. In the summer of 1969, we were ecstatic to see on TV a B&W news short of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. For the first time ever man created enough energy in a rocket to break the hold … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4743,4745,58,30,4744],"class_list":["post-31598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","tag-astronauts","tag-don-pettit","tag-history","tag-images","tag-iss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31602,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598\/revisions\/31602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}