{"id":229,"date":"2006-05-17T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T17:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2006-05-17T12:09:12","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T17:09:12","slug":"one-small-step-for-nasa-one-giant-leap-for-the-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"One small step for NASA, One giant leap for the X Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Lunar Lander Challenge, Robin <a href=\"http:\/\/lunarlander.spaceracenews.com\/?p=1\">writes<\/a>, in some detail, about NASA&#8217;s Centennial Challenges.\u00a0 Though the bulk of the article discusses the X Prize, he does mention the Tether and Climber challenges.<\/p>\n<p>One line in the story stood out; &#8220;&#8230;now that Spaceward Foundation is <em><strong>considering <\/strong><\/em>an invitation to stage its competitions in Las Cruces this year.&#8221;\u00a0 Note the verb &#8220;considering.&#8221;\u00a0 So is the date\/location change to October 19th-22nd \/ Las Cruces (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/space_elevator_11.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0at the Space Elevator Reference site)\u00a0definite or not?\u00a0 I called Elevator2010 and left a message &#8211; hopefully they&#8217;ll call me back soon and I&#8217;ll let everyone know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Lunar Lander Challenge, Robin writes, in some detail, about NASA&#8217;s Centennial Challenges.\u00a0 Though the bulk of the article discusses the X Prize, he does mention the Tether and Climber challenges. One line in the story stood out; &#8220;&#8230;now that Spaceward Foundation is considering an invitation to stage its competitions in Las Cruces this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}