{"id":803,"date":"2012-10-02T00:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T00:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2012-10-02T00:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T00:50:39","slug":"1969-a-milwaukee-space-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"1969, A Milwaukee Space Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the late 60&#8217;s, astronaut James Lovell was a household name in his hometown of Milwaukee. He was among the crew of Apollo 8 who were the first to orbit the moon in December of 1968. Milwaukee capitalized on their hometown hero by creating a short lived space museum within the MacArthur Square parking structure. It was dubbed the James A. Lovell Space Center and was administered by the Milwaukee Public Museum.<\/p>\n<p>When funding was dropped in 1969 from the City budget, the space museum couldn&#8217;t survive. Objects and displays on loan from NASA were taken away and the lights were turned off on October 26, 1969.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/19691113_Milwaukee_Space_Center_Journal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/19691113_Milwaukee_Space_Center_Journal-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"19691113_Milwaukee_Space_Center_Journal\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/19691113_Milwaukee_Space_Center_Journal-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/19691113_Milwaukee_Space_Center_Journal.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the late 60&#8217;s, astronaut James Lovell was a household name in his hometown of Milwaukee. He was among the crew of Apollo 8 who were the first to orbit the moon in December of 1968. Milwaukee capitalized on their hometown hero by creating a short lived space museum within the MacArthur Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123,122],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-old-days","tag-lovell","tag-space-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}