{"id":231,"date":"2006-05-17T18:13:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T23:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2006-05-17T18:13:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T23:13:26","slug":"earths-artificial-ring-project-west-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Earth&#8217;s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the known problems\u00a0which will have to be solved before a Space Elevator can become a reality is\u00a0space debris.\u00a0 I ran across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damninteresting.com\/?p=516\">article<\/a>, detailing one of the sources of debris.\u00a0 In 1963, the Air Force launched a rocket that put 480 million tiny copper needles into space, and, according to the same article, some of them are still there.\u00a0\u00a0Interesting reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the known problems\u00a0which will have to be solved before a Space Elevator can become a reality is\u00a0space debris.\u00a0 I ran across this article, detailing one of the sources of debris.\u00a0 In 1963, the Air Force launched a rocket that put 480 million tiny copper needles into space, and, according to the same article, [&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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}