{"id":1151,"date":"2009-02-03T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2009-02-03T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:27:09","slug":"the-space-elevator-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator Wiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) has a new partner; the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorwiki.com\">Space\u00a0Elevator Wiki<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July of 2008, shortly after the Space Elevator conference in Redmond, former Microsoft programmer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/keithcu.com\/wordpress\/\">Keith Curtis<\/a>\u00a0created this Wiki.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>This wiki is intended to be a repository of information and a baseline for research of the space elevator.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the formation of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isec.info\">ISEC<\/a> and a new emphasis on coordinated research into all aspects of developing a Space Elevator, this Wiki promises to be a great tool to move this project forward.\u00a0 Much\/most of the early technical information on this Wiki has been provided by Brad Edwards, but others are now beginning to contribute.\u00a0 For example, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward<\/a>&#8216;s CEO Ben Shelef has contributed his Solar Power presentation.\u00a0 In addition, NASA veteran Dave Lang has been uploading his research into issues surrounding the actual deployment of a Space Elevator Ribbon.\u00a0 More topics will be added\/updated in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Keith also has his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/keithcu.com\/wordpress\/\">own blog<\/a> and in its most recent post, guest author Dave Lang (see how nicely this all ties together? \ud83d\ude42 ) laments about the current state of affairs at NASA and why (in his opinion) things are the way they are there.\u00a0 His writeup is a more detailed explanation than the one I heard; &#8220;The Germans are dead and that&#8217;s all she wrote&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Keith is also an author and his book &#8220;<em>Software Wars<\/em>&#8221; is available for hard-cover or download purchase.\u00a0 I just downloaded this a few days ago and am now in the process of converting it so I can read it on my Kindle (you don&#8217;t have to do that, of course, but I&#8217;m quickly getting addicted to my new ebook reader).\u00a0 Purchase details for Keith&#8217;s book are available on his website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) has a new partner; the Space\u00a0Elevator Wiki.\u00a0 In July of 2008, shortly after the Space Elevator conference in Redmond, former Microsoft programmer Keith Curtis\u00a0created this Wiki. &#8220;This wiki is intended to be a repository of information and a baseline for research of the space elevator.&#8220; With the formation of [&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-1151","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\/1151","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=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}