{"id":1742,"date":"2014-10-05T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2014-10-05T00:40:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T05:40:59","slug":"leonard-david-on-the-space-elevator-at-space-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Leonard David on the Space Elevator at space.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m late on this, but now finally starting to catch up on my postings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/27225-space-elevator-technology.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/media\/SpaceInsider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Noted science writer (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1623\" target=\"_blank\">Keynote speaker<\/a> at the 2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference) Leonard David <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/27225-space-elevator-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\">put up a story at space.com<\/a> about the space elevator.\u00a0 He attended all three days of the conference and used what he learned there as a basis for his thoughts about the space elevator.\u00a0 Money quote from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The next steps for the development of space-elevator infrastructures are focused around the creation and funding of a Space Elevator Institute,&#8221; [Dr. Peter ]Swan said. The institute would fund research projects addressing critical issues.<\/p>\n<p>The development of prototype experiments, including tether material design for tensile strength, would be funded by the Space Elevator Institute, he added.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very good article about the conference and space elevator technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m late on this, but now finally starting to catch up on my postings&#8230; Noted science writer (and Keynote speaker at the 2014 ISEC Space Elevator Conference) Leonard David put up a story at space.com about the space elevator.\u00a0 He attended all three days of the conference and used what he learned there as [&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-1742","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\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}