{"id":8449,"date":"2014-08-01T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2014-08-01T01:39:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:39:09","slug":"videos-spacecraft-and-mission-control-simulators-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8449","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Spacecraft and mission control simulators for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this awesome spacecraft \u00a0playroom simulator built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffhighsmith.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Jeff Highsmith<\/a>\u00a0for his young son\u00a0:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/video\/making-fun-kids-room-spacecraft\/\" target=\"_d\">Making Fun: Kid\u2019s Room Spacecraft\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0MAKE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hfY-SlC2XHc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And a mission control console\/desk\u00a0goes with it :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/video\/making-fun-mission-control-desk\/\" target=\"_d\">Making Fun: Mission Control Desk &#8211;\u00a0MAKE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j6zseFi070E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this awesome spacecraft \u00a0playroom simulator built by Jeff Highsmith\u00a0for his young son\u00a0:\u00a0Making Fun: Kid\u2019s Room Spacecraft\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0MAKE And a mission control console\/desk\u00a0goes with it :\u00a0Making Fun: Mission Control Desk &#8211;\u00a0MAKE<\/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":[22,40,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-simulators","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2ch","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13165,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13165","url_meta":{"origin":8449,"position":0},"title":"Video: Simulation of Rosetta&#8217;s final maneuvers and landing on Comet 67P\/C-G","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The European Space Agency's\u00a0Rosetta\u00a0mission to the Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will end soon with the spacecraft touching down onto the icy rock sometime around\u00a0September 29-30, 2016. 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