{"id":193,"date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/science-fiction\/about-94\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:44:22","slug":"about-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/region\/europe\/about-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Rocketry: How German Theology and Russian Mysticism Shape Our View of Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2019\/11\/safe-image-83.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Religion and Rocketry: How German Theology and Russian Mysticism Shape Our View of Outer Space While researching the history of the space program for a previous article, I ran across the phrase \u201cGodspeed.\u201d Uttered spontaneously by Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter in the early days of NASA, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2018\/11\/27\/religion-and-rocketry-how-german-theology-and-russian-mysticism-shape-our-view-of-outer-space\/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&amp;utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&amp;utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&amp;utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&amp;utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D\">https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2018\/11\/27\/religion-and-rocketry-how-german-theology-and-russian-mysticism-shape-our-view-of-outer-space\/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&amp;utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&amp;utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&amp;utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&amp;utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion and Rocketry: How German Theology and Russian Mysticism Shape Our View of Outer Space While researching the history of the space program for a previous article, I ran across the phrase \u201cGodspeed.\u201d Uttered spontaneously by Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter in the early days of NASA, \u2026 https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2018\/11\/27\/religion-and-rocketry-how-german-theology-and-russian-mysticism-shape-our-view-of-outer-space\/?utm_source=%5B%27exacttarget%27%5D&amp;utm_medium=%5B%27newsletter%27%5D&amp;utm_term=%5B%27tordotcom-tordotcomnewsletter%27%5D&amp;utm_content=%5B%27na-readblog-blogpost%27%5D&amp;utm_campaign=%5B%27tor%27%5D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,74,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-scholarship","category-europe","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}