{"id":1602,"date":"2014-03-12T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T21:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2014-03-16T23:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T04:41:59","slug":"a-lunar-space-elevator-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"A Lunar Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/tn_LunarSEBase.png\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"undefined\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\" \/>As many people who follow developments in the Space Elevator &#8216;arena&#8217; are aware, LiftPort has turned its attention to developing a Lunar Space Elevator.\u00a0 Leonard David, SPACE.com&#8217;s &#8220;Space Insider Columnist&#8217; recently\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/24905-moon-elevator-lunar-exploration-liftport.html\">posted a story<\/a>\u00a0on the current status of this project.\u00a0 In this article (which includes a link to a video created by LiftPort), he interviews Jerome Pearson, the American co-inventor of the modern-day concept of the Space Elevator (and the first one, to my knowledge, that seriously discussed a Lunar Space Elevator) and LiftPort&#8217;s Michael Laine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/24905-moon-elevator-lunar-exploration-liftport.html\">very good article<\/a>, well worth the read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many people who follow developments in the Space Elevator &#8216;arena&#8217; are aware, LiftPort has turned its attention to developing a Lunar Space Elevator.\u00a0 Leonard David, SPACE.com&#8217;s &#8220;Space Insider Columnist&#8217; recently\u00a0posted a story\u00a0on the current status of this project.\u00a0 In this article (which includes a link to a video created by LiftPort), he interviews Jerome [&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-1602","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\/1602","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=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}