{"id":58266,"date":"2025-10-06T22:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/58266\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T22:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:51:27","slug":"when-computers-were-human-teachable-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/58266\/","title":{"rendered":"When Computers Were Human \u2013 Teachable Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"0b6xz\">This week, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL was founded long before it became NASA\u2019s premier center for robotic exploration of the solar system \u2013 and even before the agency existed. In fact, JPL started as the test-bed for some of the earliest rocketry experiments (thus the name \u201cJet Propulsion Laboratory\u201d). There were a number of factors that conspired to change JPL\u2019s focus from rocketry to space exploration. The Space Race and the resulting formation of NASA were two major factors. But also, with its growing expertise in launching rockets to new heights, JPL was anxious to take its experiments even farther. So in 1957, when the Soviet Union won the first leg of the Space Race by placing Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit, JPL was called into action. A few months later, NASA launched the JPL-builtExplorer 1, which became the first U.S. satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. JPL was founded long before it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[353,85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-58266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}