{"id":1073,"date":"2008-08-19T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2008-08-19T00:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T05:06:40","slug":"building-big-stuff-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Building big stuff in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/Dextre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_Dextre.jpg\"  height=\"117\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 117px\" \/><\/a>Even though <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5038091\/scifis-greatest-space-builders--and-how-well-copy-them\">this post<\/a> from the website <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\">io9.com<\/a> (a very strange site, to be sure) only lightly touches on the subject of Space Elevators, it&#8217;s overall theme; building big things in space, is a subject which is interesting all by itself.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0post also briefly mentions <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dextre\">Dextre<\/a>, the Canadian-built robot now sitting on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">ISS<\/a>.\u00a0 I would imagine that robots similar to Dextre will play a major role in actually building and maintaining a Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>This post also\u00a0contains a clip from one of the most under-rated movies ever, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0371724\/\">The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture of Dextre &#8211; click to enlarge &#8211;\u00a0from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espace.gc.ca\/asc\/eng\/missions\/sts-123\/images.asp\">Canadian Space Agency website<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though this post from the website io9.com (a very strange site, to be sure) only lightly touches on the subject of Space Elevators, it&#8217;s overall theme; building big things in space, is a subject which is interesting all by itself. The\u00a0post also briefly mentions Dextre, the Canadian-built robot now sitting on the ISS.\u00a0 I [&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-1073","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\/1073","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=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}