{"id":714,"date":"2004-08-27T12:39:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T20:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=714"},"modified":"2009-06-23T21:18:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T05:18:39","slug":"elevator2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Elevator:2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\/\">Spaceward Foundation<\/a> has announced their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\/\">Elevator:2010<\/a> challenge. Similar to the $10 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.com\/\">Ansari X Prize<\/a>, the competition is intended to jump-start technologies critical to the creation of a space elevator, and is targeting student groups. The initial 3 competions are for climber prototypes to race up a 60-meter ribbon, developing better materials for the elevator ribbons, and construction of power-beaming systems.<\/p>\n<p>On another front, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/\">The Liftport Group<\/a> has a counter on their website counting down the time until their space elevator is operational on April 12, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spaceward Foundation has announced their Elevator:2010 challenge. Similar to the $10 million Ansari X Prize, the competition is intended to jump-start technologies critical to the creation of a space elevator, and is targeting student groups. The initial 3 competions are for climber prototypes to race up a 60-meter ribbon, developing better materials for the [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}