{"id":5210,"date":"2013-11-06T21:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2013-11-06T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T21:48:33","slug":"travel-bug-going-to-the-great-geocache-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"“Travel bug’ going to the great geocache in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geocaching<\/a>\u00a0has become a popular “treasure hunt” activity around the world. Small stashes of miscellaneous items are hidden in containers in over 2.25 million spots around the globe and their locations archived at \u00a0www.Geocaching.com<\/a>. \u00a0Participants use their GPS units to find a cache, which might be by a waterfall in a forest or behind a telephone pole along a city street. The geocacher can take an item from the cache but they should replace it with some new item.<\/p>\n

Geocaching has now extended from earth into space:\u00a0Geocaching\u00a0in Space FAQ \u2013 The\u00a0Geocaching\u00a0Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Richard Garriott<\/a>\u00a0placed a small cache on the International Space Station during his visit there<\/a>. This evening, a Soyuz with three new ISS crew members will blast off and arrive at the station in the morning. They include\u00a0US astronaut Rick Mastracchio who will be carrying a Travel Bug Dog Tag. A travel bug is a\u00a0Trackable item<\/a>\u00a0that simply has an ID that is registered at\u00a0www.geocaching.com<\/a>\u00a0and as it is moved from cache to cache, the movers write about the tag’s travels on the website. Garriott left one on the station and Mastracchio will take a new one that is sponsored by the 5th grade class of Chase Elementary School in Waterbury, Connecticut and add it to the cached on the station. He will, however, return it to the class when he returns from space in six months.<\/p>\n

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