{"id":1246,"date":"2009-07-23T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2009-08-19T00:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T05:31:48","slug":"king-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"King of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is more like it!\u00a0 When USST showed up for the first round of testing, there were only four of them.\u00a0 I was quite disappointed, expecting their usual army.\u00a0 For this round of testing, however, they are here in force, 13 in all.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And they’ve come in style – look at the picture of that truck!\u00a0 Yes it’s a rental, but it’s easily the coolest vehicle I’ve seen so far in this competition.\u00a0 The truck is a Chevy (with a Santini<\/a> paint job) and is a monster.\u00a0 They are using it to pull the motor home they have with them – I think it could pull a lot more.\u00a0 I asked them if they would wash it for me so I could get a good picture of it, but they declined.\u00a0 Spoilsports…<\/p>\n

When I visited their work area yesterday, their climber was mostly assembled – you can see it here.\u00a0 However, you’ll note that they have nothing on there to hold payload (at least I didn’t recognize anything that could be used as such).\u00a0 When I asked what they were going to use (last year they had some tubes mounted to their climber), I just got some smiles and an offhand comment about “we’ll have something”.\u00a0 I’m sure they will.<\/p>\n

<\/a>And, it looks like from this picture that they’ve been putting in some long hours (as everyone involved with the Games has)…<\/p>\n

(Click on the first or last picture thumbnail to see a larger version of the picture)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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