{"id":1375,"date":"2010-03-10T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2010-03-11T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T06:02:51","slug":"mr-lasermotive-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Mr. LaserMotive goes to Washington&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/tn_NASA_GroupPhoto.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" \/>As I <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1370\">posted several days ago<\/a>, a gathering was recently held in Washington DC &#8211; a gathering of NASA people involved in the Centennial Challenges program (of which the Space Elevator Games are a part) and most\/all of the recent organizers and competitors\u00a0from the\u00a0recent competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Team LaserMotive arrived in force and a\u00a0post about the trip\u00a0is now\u00a0on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=602\">their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have good things to say about the new direction of NASA and Ben Shelef, head of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward Foundation<\/a> (organizers of the Space Elevator Games), agrees.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope everyone&#8217;s new-found optimism turns out to be correct&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(The picture is from the gathering and is of members of Team Lasermotive and several NASA personnel &#8211; visit the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=602\">LaserMotive blog post<\/a>\u00a0to see a (slightly) larger version of this picture and several others)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I posted several days ago, a gathering was recently held in Washington DC &#8211; a gathering of NASA people involved in the Centennial Challenges program (of which the Space Elevator Games are a part) and most\/all of the recent organizers and competitors\u00a0from the\u00a0recent competitions. Team LaserMotive arrived in force and a\u00a0post about the trip\u00a0is [&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-1375","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\/1375","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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}