{"id":917903,"date":"2026-07-06T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/space-science-has-come-a-long-way-since-july-4-1776-heres-a-look-back-at-the-saga\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:14:37","slug":"space-science-has-come-a-long-way-since-july-4-1776-heres-a-look-back-at-the-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/space-science-has-come-a-long-way-since-july-4-1776-heres-a-look-back-at-the-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Space science has come a long way since July 4, 1776. Here&#8217;s a look back at the saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Celebrating America&#8217;s 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major developments occurred to change our thinking&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/astronomy\/space-science-has-come-a-long-way-since-july-4-1776-heres-a-look-back-at-the-saga\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Larisa Pekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Celebrating America&#8217;s 250th birthday, Space.com looks back at what our understanding of space was like in 1776 and what major developments occurred to change our thinking&#8230;Read MoreLarisa Pekar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3421,536,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","category-science-nature","category-space"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}