{"id":4043,"date":"2013-08-19T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T14:27:01","slug":"the-dc-x-and-jerry-pournelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"The DC-X and Jerry Pournelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dc-xspacequest.org\/\" target=\"_d\">DC-X Anniversary and Workshop<\/a> event in New Mexico finished yesterday. Find notes and reports on the event at<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23dcx&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_d\">Twitter \/ Search &#8211; #dcx<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeff_foust\" target=\"_d\">Jeff Foust (jeff_foust) on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transterrestrial.com\/?p=50990\" target=\"_d\">Mike Griffin: The Spoiled Generation &#8211; Transterrestrial Musings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transterrestrial.com\/?p=50995\" target=\"_d\">DC-X At Twenty &#8211; Transterrestrial Musings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today sci-fi writer and computer guru <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Pournelle\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Pournelle<\/a> writes about his role in bringing about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X\" target=\"_blank\">DC-X<\/a> project: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=14994\" target=\"_d\">SSX, DC\/X, Star Wars &#8211; Jerry Pournelle\/Chaos Manor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DC-X Anniversary and Workshop event in New Mexico finished yesterday. Find notes and reports on the event at Twitter \/ Search &#8211; #dcx Jeff Foust (jeff_foust) on Twitter Mike Griffin: The Spoiled Generation &#8211; Transterrestrial Musings DC-X At Twenty &#8211; Transterrestrial Musings Today sci-fi writer and computer guru Jerry Pournelle writes about his role &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The DC-X and Jerry Pournelle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-rockets","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-13d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13590,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13590","url_meta":{"origin":4043,"position":0},"title":"Loretta Jackson Delong, co-founder of XCOR, passes away","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The NewSpace community suffers a big loss: Loretta Jackson Delong (1948-2016) | Rand Simberg\/Transterrestrial Musings XCOR co-founder dies in Midland - Midland Reporter-Telegram\u00a0 [Update: See also Mike Massee - Yesterday I lost a very good friend and the world... 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