{"id":1209,"date":"2009-06-15T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2009-06-15T18:04:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T23:04:52","slug":"monday-first-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Monday first tasks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090615%20002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090615%20002.jpg\"  \/><\/a>We&#8217;re now here at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/dryden\/home\/index.html\">Dryden<\/a>, on the base, in the workshop, beginning to put the physical structures in place for this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games (the planning structures were started long ago).\u00a0 Today is a day for building stuff (&#8216;swinging a hammer&#8217;) and, if all goes according to plan, we hope to do our first actual flight test at noon tomorrow.\u00a0 That&#8217;s extraordinarily ambitious, but we&#8217;re going to give it a go as they say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/20090615%20003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/2009SEGames\/tn_20090615%20003.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>Here are a couple of early pictures from today.\u00a0 The first shows the KC Space Pirates trailer (the Space Pirates are currently the only team on site &#8211; though others are supposed to show up this week too) while the second shows some Spaceward Volunteers and NASA shop personnel getting their hands dirty.<\/p>\n<p>More here later and also on the official website of the Games, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\/\">www.spaceelevatorgames.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to follow things minute-by-minute, I&#8217;m also using Twitter &#8211; follow me as &#8220;SEGames&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the picture thumbnails for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re now here at Dryden, on the base, in the workshop, beginning to put the physical structures in place for this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games (the planning structures were started long ago).\u00a0 Today is a day for building stuff (&#8216;swinging a hammer&#8217;) and, if all goes according to plan, we hope to do our first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","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=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}