{"id":1025,"date":"2008-06-12T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2008-06-12T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T21:52:32","slug":"national-space-society-nss-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"National Space Society (NSS) &#8211; Going Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/NSSBrochure_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" src=\"\/media\/tn_NSSBrochure_1.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 150px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>In the current (Summer, 2008) issue of Ad Astra, the quarterly publication produced by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nss.org\">National Space Society<\/a>, there is an interview with Bert Murray, captain of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nssspaceelevator.org\/\">NSS Space Elevator Team<\/a>.\u00a0 The interview, entitled <em>&#8216;Going Up&#8217;<\/em>, covers such topics as Bert&#8217;s background, team progess, advantages of a Space Elevator, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/NSSBrochure_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_NSSBrochure_2.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a worthy read contained in a worthy publication.\u00a0 I never have enough time to read all of the magazines I&#8217;ve subscribed to, but I always read As Astra from cover to cover &#8211; it&#8217;s very well put together and always has interesting and timely articles.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not already\u00a0a member of NSS, I urge you to consider joining.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/NSSBrochure_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_NSSBrochure_3.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>On a related note, at the recently completed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isdc2008.org\">ISDC 2008<\/a> conference, the NSS team had a booth.\u00a0 I had posted about this before along with some photographs.\u00a0 One thing I neglected to mention is that NSS has created a brochure about their Space Elevator team.\u00a0 The three thumbnails in this post are of the brochure &#8211; click on the thumbnails\u00a0to get a larger, readable version of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the current (Summer, 2008) issue of Ad Astra, the quarterly publication produced by the National Space Society, there is an interview with Bert Murray, captain of the NSS Space Elevator Team.\u00a0 The interview, entitled &#8216;Going Up&#8217;, covers such topics as Bert&#8217;s background, team progess, advantages of a Space Elevator, etc. It&#8217;s a worthy read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}