{"id":1592,"date":"2013-11-05T21:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T02:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2013-11-05T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T02:41:58","slug":"historian-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1592","title":{"rendered":"Historian wanted!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/tn_Historian.gif\" class=\"alignright\"  \/>The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) has formed a History Committee to document the invention of the concept of the Space Elevator and the ever-increasing research and design which is taking place relating to this idea.\u00a0 Dr. Peter Swan, the President of ISEC, puts it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;We are at a point in human history where there is activity to move off planet.\u00a0 As most of the world is limited by cost to orbit, we in the space elevator community believe we can make a difference in the future.\u00a0 However, as we go forward, we should also look back and record the progress that has occurred in the space elevator community.\u00a0 No one else will, until much later; so, we must step up and record our own history now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An initial team has already been formed and an aggressive agenda has been set, but Dr. Swan is looking for someone to head up the effort.\u00a0 The first Conference call of the History Committee is set to occur next Tuesday, November 12th.\u00a0 If you are interested in joining the team and\/or heading up the effort, please contact Dr. Swan at <a href=\"mailto:pete.swan@isec.org?Subject=History%20Committee\">pete.swan [at] isec.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) has formed a History Committee to document the invention of the concept of the Space Elevator and the ever-increasing research and design which is taking place relating to this idea.\u00a0 Dr. Peter Swan, the President of ISEC, puts it this way: &#8220;We are at a point in human history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isec","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","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=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}