{"id":1069,"date":"2008-08-11T00:54:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T05:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2008-08-11T00:54:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T05:54:53","slug":"a-greek-perspective-on-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"A Greek perspective on Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tovima.gr\/print_article.php?e=B&amp;f=15414&amp;m=H06&amp;aa=1\">recent article<\/a> in To BHMAOnline (which my search engine just turned up), author Tasos Kafantaris discusses the future possibilities of Space Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>A Space Elevator is briefly mentioned; the article says that a ticket to space\u00a0today costs &#8216;&#8230;20 to 22 million Euros&#8221;.\u00a0 Kafantaris speculates that a Space Elevator ticket to an orbital hotel might only cost &#8220;100 Euros&#8221;.\u00a0 Of course these days, that&#8217;s a lot of American money&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The original article is in Greek &#8211; the Google translation into English\u00a0can be found <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A\/\/www.tovima.gr\/print_article.php%3Fe%3DB%26f%3D15414%26m%3DH06%26aa%3D1&amp;hl=en&amp;langpair=auto|en&amp;tbb=1&amp;ie=windows-1253\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this recent article in To BHMAOnline (which my search engine just turned up), author Tasos Kafantaris discusses the future possibilities of Space Tourism. A Space Elevator is briefly mentioned; the article says that a ticket to space\u00a0today costs &#8216;&#8230;20 to 22 million Euros&#8221;.\u00a0 Kafantaris speculates that a Space Elevator ticket to an orbital hotel [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","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=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}