{"id":1027,"date":"2008-06-18T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2008-06-18T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:06:17","slug":"kc-space-pirates-and-robotics-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"KC Space Pirates and robotics in the news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"119\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SpacePiratesNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"84\" style=\"width: 119px; height: 84px\" \/>At KansasCity.com, author Jonathan Bender wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/238\/story\/665837.html\">article<\/a> discussing robotics, Space Elevator climber, the Spaceward Games and, among others, Brian Turner, captain of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com\">Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This year Turner and his team are headed back to the desert with one goal \u2014 to capture the $2 million prize. They have a new power source, a laser, but the climber must now scale a kilometer-long ribbon, a distance 10 times greater than the 2007 threshold.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun article &#8211; that Brian sure does get in the news, doesn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At KansasCity.com, author Jonathan Bender wrote an article discussing robotics, Space Elevator climber, the Spaceward Games and, among others, Brian Turner, captain of the Kansas City Space Pirates&#8230; From the article: &#8220;This year Turner and his team are headed back to the desert with one goal \u2014 to capture the $2 million prize. They have [&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-1027","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\/1027","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=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}