{"id":1421,"date":"2010-08-14T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-08-14T11:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T17:49:39","slug":"the-space-elevator-and-the-strong-tether-challenge-makes-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator and the Strong Tether Challenge makes the news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_News.gif\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignleft\" height=\"200\"  \/>The local (Seattle, Washington) NBC affiliate is KING-TV.\u00a0 They sent a crew to film Yuri and Jerome&#8217;s arrival at Sea-Tac on Thursday and another crew to film events, including the Strong Tether Challenge, at yesterday&#8217;s first day of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorconference.org\" target=\"_blank\">Space Elevator Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A segment on these topics made both the afternoon and evening news on KING-TV.\u00a0 This segment has been posted on the web <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/news\/technology\/Space-elevator-NASA-Microsoft-100659069.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 I thought it was a very well done piece; not sensationalistic and with all the facts correct.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also been mentioned twice on Alan Boyle&#8217;s Cosmic Log, <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/08\/13\/4881974-50-years-of-space-elevator-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/08\/13\/4883934-tethers-tortured-in-2-million-contest\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic Log is one of my very favorite daily reads &#8211; I highly recommend that you <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_feeds\/rss2\/author\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe<\/a> to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local (Seattle, Washington) NBC affiliate is KING-TV.\u00a0 They sent a crew to film Yuri and Jerome&#8217;s arrival at Sea-Tac on Thursday and another crew to film events, including the Strong Tether Challenge, at yesterday&#8217;s first day of the Space Elevator Conference. A segment on these topics made both the afternoon and evening news on [&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-1421","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\/1421","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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}