{"id":295,"date":"2006-08-09T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2006-09-28T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T03:04:04","slug":"space-elevator-games-to-take-place-at-the-2006-x-prize-cup-in-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator Games to take place at the 2006 X PRIZE Cup in New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/elevator2010logo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>From the <a href=\"\/media\/Spaceward20060808.pdf\">Press Release<\/a>: &#8220;The X PRIZE Foundation and the Spaceward Foundation have signed an agreement that will bring the Space Elevator Games, a NASA Centennial Challenge, to the X PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is double-plus good.\u00a0 The crowds should be much larger than for the Space Elevator games alone and the extra publicity will be quite beneficial &#8211; the more people that learn about this concept, the better.\u00a0 Of course this also raises the bar.\u00a0 Teams that succeed (and fail) will do so in front of a much larger audience.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the dates have been officially set as October 20th and 21st.\u00a0 I had earlier reported that there would be competition on the 19th and the 22nd as well, but this no longer seems to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprizecup.com\/\">X Prize Cup web site<\/a>, they publish a list of events (including the Space Elevator games) as well as hotel and travel information.\u00a0 There is also a promise to broadcast the events, live, via the web.\u00a0 So, if you can&#8217;t make it, you can still watch it.<\/p>\n<p>The Press Release is in .pdf format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Press Release: &#8220;The X PRIZE Foundation and the Spaceward Foundation have signed an agreement that will bring the Space Elevator Games, a NASA Centennial Challenge, to the X PRIZE Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico&#8230;&#8221; This is double-plus good.\u00a0 The crowds should be much larger than for the Space Elevator games alone and [&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-295","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\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}