{"id":1117,"date":"2008-11-17T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2008-11-17T00:06:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T06:06:43","slug":"michael-laine-attends-space-camp-for-big-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Michael Laine attends &#8220;Space Camp for Big Kids&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/Michael_Laine_liftport_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"100\" src=\"\/media\/tn_Michael_Laine_liftport_2.jpg\"  height=\"198\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 198px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;LiftPort&#8221;, &#8220;Michael Laine&#8221; and the &#8220;Space Elevator&#8221; are words and phrases that are\u00a0often used together.\u00a0 As the driving force behind <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort<\/a>, Michael poured his heart and soul (not to mention his wallet) into\u00a0that company&#8217;s\u00a0effort to build a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Though it did not succeed, no one who is aware of what went on at LiftPort can question his committment or dedication to the cause&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After LiftPort, Michael traveled to Europe and spent many months there, exploring business opportunities and seeing the sights (and posting a ton of photos on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/space_elevator\/\">Flickr<\/a>).\u00a0 He&#8217;s back in the US now and, among other projects he&#8217;s working on, he has a 15-part series he is writing for the Discovery Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.com\/next_generation\/2008\/11\/laine-space-uni.html\">posted now<\/a> and it&#8217;s a fascinating look into what happens at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isunet.edu\/\">International Space University <\/a>(ISU).\u00a0 I must confess that attending these sessions is on my &#8216;bucket list&#8217; and I hope I get a chance to do that in the not too distant future.<\/p>\n<p>And knowing Michael, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re going to be hearing much more from him and about him in the near future&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;LiftPort&#8221;, &#8220;Michael Laine&#8221; and the &#8220;Space Elevator&#8221; are words and phrases that are\u00a0often used together.\u00a0 As the driving force behind LiftPort, Michael poured his heart and soul (not to mention his wallet) into\u00a0that company&#8217;s\u00a0effort to build a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Though it did not succeed, no one who is aware of what went on at LiftPort [&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-1117","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\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}