{"id":6460,"date":"2026-08-07T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:49:09","slug":"explorer-vi-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6460","title":{"rendered":"Explorer VI &#8211; 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13068\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13068\" class=\"wp-image-13068 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Explorer-VI-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Explorer VI\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Explorer VI<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Explorer VI<\/i> was launched in 1959 and transmitted the first photographs of earth taken from space<\/strong>. The satellite also transmitted data about different types of energy. The satellite went into decay on July 1, 1961. Older children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/spacecraft\/display.action?id=1959-004A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explorer VI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explorer VI was launched in 1959 and transmitted the first photographs of earth taken from space. The satellite also transmitted data about different types of energy. The satellite went into decay on July 1, 1961. Older children could learn more at: Explorer VI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4368,5309,5772,1013,5674,1014],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4368","tag-5309","tag-august-7","tag-explorer-vi","tag-july-1","tag-photographs-of-earth-from-space","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29611,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/29611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}