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<\/a>One last picture thumbnail to share with you.\u00a0 On the left is Akira Tsuchida and on the right is Dr. Martin Lades.\u00a0 Both are well know in the Space Elevator community.\u00a0 Akira gave Sunday’s presentation on a Japan roadmap for building the Space Elevator.\u00a0 They now have their ‘estimated operational date’ as 2050 (twenty years later than they had previously predicted – mostly due to their opinion as to the state-of-the-art of CNT development).\u00a0 This roadmap is going to be updated every year until 2017.\u00a0 It’s too long to go into now, but part of his presentation was about toilets on a Space Elevator Space station and how they are being tested out in an orphanage in Mongolia (really!).\u00a0 The discussion about this initiative was absolutely priceless – you had to be here to really appreciate it.\u00a0 Akira also headed up the E-T-C team that competed in the 2007 Space Elevator Games and is famous for, among other things, selling his car (a Mercedes, no less) to help finance the project.\u00a0 He is definitely a true believer and is a genuinely nice guy.<\/p>\nAnd on the right is Dr. Martin Lades.\u00a0 Martin is one of those ‘behind-the scenes’ guys that just helps makes things work.\u00a0 He was part of the Kansas City Space Pirates team that competed in the Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 He is on the Board of Directors for ISEC and is also a key member in trying to get Project CLAVIS up and running.<\/p>\n
So, if you weren’t here this year, you definitely missed a very worthwhile event.\u00a0 I have tried to summarize the presentations in this blog, but I know that it is only a poor representation of what actually went on.\u00a0 I would urge all of my readers to consider coming to the 2011 EuroSpaceward Conference – thank you again Markus!<\/p>\n
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So, the 2010 EuroSpaceward conference is over – it sure went by quickly.\u00a0 It was a very enjoyable conference and Markus Klettner, the Executive Director of EuroSpaceward deserves a lot of credit for the work he did in organizing this event.\u00a0 Dr. Vessilin Shanov remarked to me at the end of the first day that this conference “keeps getting better each year” and I can only agree.\u00a0 Saturday’s presentations were all about CNTs and the state-of-the-art in their development while Sunday was focused specifically on Space Elevator topics.\u00a0 The synergy between the two sessions and their speakers was\u00a0wonderful to see.\u00a0 Space Elevator people are obviously critically interested in the status of CNT development while the CNT theorists and developers were able to see what “the dreamers” (and I include myself in that group) want to do with the fruits of their efforts.<\/p>\n![](\"\/media\/2010EuroSpacewardConference\/Sunday_050.jpg\")
<\/a>One last picture thumbnail to share with you.\u00a0 On the left is Akira Tsuchida and on the right is Dr. Martin Lades.\u00a0 Both are well know in the Space Elevator community.\u00a0 Akira gave Sunday’s presentation on a Japan roadmap for building the Space Elevator.\u00a0 They now have their ‘estimated operational date’ as 2050 (twenty years later than they had previously predicted – mostly due to their opinion as to the state-of-the-art of CNT development).\u00a0 This roadmap is going to be updated every year until 2017.\u00a0 It’s too long to go into now, but part of his presentation was about toilets on a Space Elevator Space station and how they are being tested out in an orphanage in Mongolia (really!).\u00a0 The discussion about this initiative was absolutely priceless – you had to be here to really appreciate it.\u00a0 Akira also headed up the E-T-C team that competed in the 2007 Space Elevator Games and is famous for, among other things, selling his car (a Mercedes, no less) to help finance the project.\u00a0 He is definitely a true believer and is a genuinely nice guy.<\/p>\n