{"id":1651,"date":"2014-09-18T20:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2014-09-18T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T01:36:27","slug":"the-space-elevator-appears-in-the-nss-ad-astra-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator appears in the NSS Ad Astra magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/NSSLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"72\"  width=\"162\" \/>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nss.org\/adastra\/volume26\/v26n3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fall, 2014 issue of the National Space Society&#8217;s Ad Astra<\/a> magazine, there is a four page article on the Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Unlocking the potential of space elevators is a four page article, written by Peter Swan (president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isec.org\" target=\"_blank\">ISEC<\/a>) and Cathy Swan, that referenced and summarized the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1594\" target=\"_blank\">IAA study<\/a> on Space Elevators.\u00a0 The whole article (which you can read <a href=\"\/media\/ASTRA_FALL14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) is very good, but for me, the &#8220;money quote&#8221; was:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The mission [for space business] for success is simple: Reduce the price for access to GEO to $500\/kg while changing the model to: daily, routine, smooth-riding, less dangerous, environmentally sound, open size\/mass criteria and mission enabling.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Fall, 2014 issue of the National Space Society&#8217;s Ad Astra magazine, there is a four page article on the Space Elevator. Unlocking the potential of space elevators is a four page article, written by Peter Swan (president of ISEC) and Cathy Swan, that referenced and summarized the recent IAA study on Space Elevators.\u00a0 [&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-1651","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\/1651","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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}