{"id":1541,"date":"2012-09-12T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2012-09-12T17:53:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T22:53:20","slug":"deadlines-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1541","title":{"rendered":"Deadlines approaching&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_Hourglass.gif\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\"  width=\"136\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"undefined\" \/>I\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1538\" target=\"_blank\">posted earlier<\/a>\u00a0about the LiftPort\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/michaellaine\/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a>; it has now raised over $96,000 &#8211; and there is only 11 hours to go (as of this post). \u00a0If you want to contribute towards the rebirth of LiftPort, here&#8217;s a tangible way to show your support!<\/p>\n<p>And, \u00a0I also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1537\" target=\"_blank\">posted earlier<\/a>\u00a0about <strong>The Tower of Babel: NASA&#8217;s Great Endeavor<\/strong>, a new novel with a Space Elevator as a central theme. \u00a0The author, Dr. Victor Nelson had previously offered to donate any revenues he received from early August through the end of the just-completed space elevator conference to ISEC. \u00a0Dr. Nelson has now extended that offer to September 15th, so you still have a chance to buy the book and help ISEC. \u00a0Dr. Nelson also tells me he lives\u00a0&#8220;<em>&#8230;near the Johnson Space Center and will be happy to sign the books for those who are in the area.<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0Thank you Dr. Nelson!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0posted earlier\u00a0about the LiftPort\u00a0Kickstarter campaign; it has now raised over $96,000 &#8211; and there is only 11 hours to go (as of this post). \u00a0If you want to contribute towards the rebirth of LiftPort, here&#8217;s a tangible way to show your support! And, \u00a0I also\u00a0posted earlier\u00a0about The Tower of Babel: NASA&#8217;s Great Endeavor, a new [&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-1541","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\/1541","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=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}