{"id":1086,"date":"2008-09-24T00:05:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T05:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2008-09-24T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T05:06:09","slug":"i-keep-telling-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"I keep telling you…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a very interesting article<\/a> in the most current Newsweek titled “The Real Space Race is in Asia<\/em>“.\u00a0 I think the author is absolutely spot-on in his analysis.\u00a0 I have long argued that the space race between India and China could wind up to be a driving force behind developing the world’s first Space Elevator (I’ve blogged about this here<\/a> and here<\/a> and presented this conclusion<\/a> at the last two Space Elevator conferences I’ve attended).<\/p>\n

I think that the possibility of a Dubai-India connection to jointly develop a Space Elevator makes all sorts of sense.\u00a0 Dubai can fund this out of their ‘pocket change’ (only a slight exaggeration) – they certainly have the financial wherewithall and they are actively looking for projects to make money\u00a0for them\u00a0when their oil runs out.\u00a0 A Space Elevator would be PERFECT for this.\u00a0 The Indians have a real and growing space program.\u00a0 They have a real military, are a nuclear power and have direct sea lanes to two of the most favored potential sites for a Space Elevator.\u00a0 And, as the article points out, they are locked in an ever-increasing space race with the Chinese.\u00a0 A Space Elevator would be an outstanding way for them to leapfrog the\u00a0Long March…<\/p>\n

Some money quotes from the article:<\/p>\n

“China sees its spacewalk as a way of proving that it belongs with the United States and Russia in the top tier of space-faring nations. But its true opponent in this space race is not the West so much as its Asian neighbors\u2014<\/em>India<\/em> in particular. India has in recent years transformed its space program from a utilitarian affair of meteorological and communications satellites into a hyperactive project that seems designed to make a splash on the world stage. Its robotic-exploration program is scheduled to launch a probe on Oct. 22 that will orbit the moon for two years.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And…<\/p>\n

“The United States and the Soviet Union were racing in the context of a cold war, but India and China are vying for leadership in a competitive marketplace of people and knowledge industries. It’s about developing technology, talent and markets.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article is highly recommended.\u00a0 And remember, you heard it here first (and at Newsweek, second) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a very interesting article in the most current Newsweek titled “The Real Space Race is in Asia“.\u00a0 I think the author is absolutely spot-on in his analysis.\u00a0 I have long argued that the space race between India and China could wind up to be a driving force behind developing the world’s first Space […]<\/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-1086","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\/1086","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=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}