{"id":319,"date":"2006-08-28T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2006-08-29T00:13:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T05:13:46","slug":"michael-laine-to-appear-at-dragon-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Michael Laine to appear at Dragon Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/madscientist.org.uk\/schedule.shtml\">schedule<\/a>, Michael Laine,\u00a0Founder and President\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort<\/a>, is scheduled to give a presentation at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\">Dragon Con<\/a> convention in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Michael will be presenting on Saturday, September 2nd at 7:00pm in a track entitled &#8220;The Space Elevator &#8211; 2006 Progress Report&#8221;.\u00a0 According to the published schedule, his talk will be on &#8220;What the LiftPort Group has been working on, including key technologies, and successes and failures over the past year. Where we are in our step-by-step development of a complete space-access infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to hearing this presentation, I&#8217;d like to go to Dragon Con, if for no other reason than to meet\u00a0some of the\u00a0cast members from Babylon V, my all-time favorite Sci-Fi series.\u00a0 Maybe next year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the published\u00a0schedule, Michael Laine,\u00a0Founder and President\u00a0of LiftPort, is scheduled to give a presentation at this year&#8217;s Dragon Con convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael will be presenting on Saturday, September 2nd at 7:00pm in a track entitled &#8220;The Space Elevator &#8211; 2006 Progress Report&#8221;.\u00a0 According to the published schedule, his talk will be on [&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-319","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\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}