{"id":1736,"date":"2014-10-04T00:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T05:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2014-10-03T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:35:22","slug":"shoot-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Shoot the Moon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/ShootTheMoon_MichaelLaine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/ShootTheMoon_MichaelLaine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Another Space Elevator Documentary is being produced and needs support for its Kickstarter campaign.\u00a0 Producer Alexis Santos of Bad Character productions, supplied me with this information about the effort:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m working on a feature-length documentary about a space elevator (yes, the one that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/michaellaine\/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarted<\/a>). It\u2019s called <em>Shoot The Moon<\/em>, and it&#8217;ll follow Michael Laine and the LiftPort team as they tackle their biggest experiment yet: sending a robot up 30,000 feet on a tether.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s never been done before, and when they do it, it&#8217;ll be the tallest free-standing human structure in existence &#8212; not to mention the highest a robot has ever gone without the help of rockets or an airplane. The chance of failure is real. The robot could come crashing down 5.68 miles to Earth and crush a 14-year dream, the space elevator idea\u2026 and our crew. If it\u2019s a success, we could well be watching a revolution in commercial space.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/shootthemoondoc\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter campaign<\/a> to complete the film, complete with miniature model-based effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funding for this project closes Thursday morning, October 23rd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Space Elevator Documentary is being produced and needs support for its Kickstarter campaign.\u00a0 Producer Alexis Santos of Bad Character productions, supplied me with this information about the effort: I\u2019m working on a feature-length documentary about a space elevator (yes, the one that was Kickstarted). It\u2019s called Shoot The Moon, and it&#8217;ll follow Michael Laine [&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-1736","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\/1736","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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}