{"id":2052,"date":"2016-07-03T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2016-07-03T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T10:45:45","slug":"journey-to-the-moon-at-maropeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/journey-to-the-moon-at-maropeng\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the Moon at Maropeng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This remarkable event takes place on the 16th of July (depending on the moon phases), in order to commemorate\u00a0the first human lunar landing in 1969.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Join Vincent Nettmann, Maropeng\u2019s resident astronomer, as he presents this popular illustrated talk. Using his scale model Apollo 11 rocket, he demonstrates how NASA made the first successful journey to the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have lift-off!<\/p>\n<p>The Eagle has landed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one small step for man&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are the difficulties of human lunar exploration? How were they overcome? Did man really go to the moon? What about the conspiracy theories?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The slightly shorter-than-usual after-dinner talk is followed by a 25-minute video featuring the best of the original NASA Apollo film clips from this era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This event is really about rocket science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The laser-guided binocular tour and large aperture telescopic stargazing afterwards are subject to weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Itinerary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">18h00: Arrive for welcome drinks in the hotel reception nave<br \/>\n18h30: Enjoy a stargazing presentation<br \/>\n19h30: Dinner at the Hotel restaurant.\u00a0Stargazing through our telescopes will take\u00a0place after dinner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>What to bring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you have your own binoculars you are welcome to bring them along. Bring a warm jacket as the evenings can be chilly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Weather<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If it is raining or overcast the talk and dinner will still take place but not the stargazing through the telescopes. You will receive the itinerary via SMS the day before the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.maropeng.co.za\/products\/16-july-journey-to-the-moon-maropeng-boutique-hotel\"><strong>Book your spot now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This remarkable event takes place on the 16th of July (depending on the moon phases), in order to commemorate\u00a0the first human lunar landing in 1969. Join Vincent Nettmann, Maropeng\u2019s resident astronomer, as he presents this popular illustrated talk. Using his scale model Apollo 11 rocket, he demonstrates how NASA made the first successful journey to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-maropeng-cradle-of-humankind"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/joburg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}