{"id":25518,"date":"2011-03-24T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/space-workers-can-be-oddly-unsuited-to-anything\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:00:06","slug":"space-workers-can-be-oddly-unsuited-to-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/space-workers-can-be-oddly-unsuited-to-anything\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Space workers can be oddly unsuited to anything else. I went to Titusville\u2019s small airport to meet Robert Bial, who runs a plant that refurbishes aircraft landing gear. He is planning to hire up to 60 mechanics from the shuttle programme, but told me that a recent job fair at KSC was acutely depressing. An engineer with two PhDs had approached him, desperate for a job, but he had been so overqualified that Bial didn\u2019t understand what he did. Finally, the engineer explained that he had invented a fibre now widely used in air-conditioning systems. \u201cHere he is, a guy that our government is just going to let go,\u201d said Bial. \u201cHow can we let these people leave?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/2011\/01\/brevard-county-nasa-last-flight-space-shuttle\/\">The final countdown \u00ab Prospect Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space workers can be oddly unsuited to anything else. I went to Titusville\u2019s small airport to meet Robert Bial, who runs a plant that refurbishes aircraft landing gear. He is planning to hire up to 60 mechanics from the shuttle programme, but told me that a recent job fair at KSC was acutely depressing. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}