{"id":16585,"date":"2019-02-09T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T16:15:34","slug":"making-the-first-forecast-for-a-us-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2019\/02\/making-the-first-forecast-for-a-us-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the first forecast for a US satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you love history, you will be fascinated by this story about a stubborn meteorologist who made the crucial forecast for the launch of the first US satellite in January 1958 following the flight of the USSR&#8217;s Sputnik in late 1957 . They could not afford to get the launch wrong and depended on him to get the satellite into space. You can read the story at <em>Daily Press<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/os-bz-john-meisenheimer-profile-20190124-story.html\">https:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/os-bz-john-meisenheimer-profile-20190124-story.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/02\/meisenheimer-photo-1958-satellite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/02\/meisenheimer-photo-1958-satellite-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/02\/meisenheimer-photo-1958-satellite-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/02\/meisenheimer-photo-1958-satellite-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2019\/02\/meisenheimer-photo-1958-satellite.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. John Meisenheimer, the Air Force weather liaison officer at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, gave the weather forecast for the launch of Explorer 1 in late January 1958. Here he is pictured at the Cape in 1956. (Courtesy of John Meisenheimer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love history, you will be fascinated by this story about a stubborn meteorologist who made the crucial forecast for the launch of the first US satellite in January 1958 following the flight of the USSR&#8217;s Sputnik in late 1957 . They could not afford to get the launch wrong and depended on him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16587,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions\/16587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}