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Elevator2010 has just sent out an email to its elevator2010-announcements list.\u00a0 It is quoted below, in its entirety, thanks to the kind permission of Ben Shelef, co-founder of Elevator2010.\u00a0 If you want to get these announcements directly, all you have to do is to subscribe to the Elevator2010 announcement list at their website – I encourage you to do so.\u00a0 And Ben, thanks for the very kind words about this blog.<\/p>\n
Hello folks, and greetings from Elevator Central.\u00a0 It’s been a long time since our last update.<\/em><\/p>\n We are now a less than 2 months before the competition, and things are beginning to ramp up.<\/em><\/p>\n In this update: ——-<\/em><\/p>\n X-PRIZE: Space Elevator Blog: Qualification Week: Volunteer: 1. Work that needs to be done between now and the show.\u00a0 We need help with planning, engineering work, general office work, and planning.\u00a0 Did we mention planning? We will publish a more specific list of positions we need in the coming weeks, but if you have the ability to contribute time, please let us know now.<\/em><\/p>\n IAC: As usual, our links:<\/em><\/p>\n Spaceward:\u00a0 <\/em>http:\/\/www.spaceward.org<\/em><\/a> Cheers, <\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0 Ben, Meekk, and the test of the Spaceward crew. Elevator2010 has just sent out an email to its elevator2010-announcements list.\u00a0 It is quoted below, in its entirety, thanks to the kind permission of Ben Shelef, co-founder of Elevator2010.\u00a0 If you want to get these announcements directly, all you have to do is to subscribe to the Elevator2010 announcement list at their website – I […]<\/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-321","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\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Formal venue announcement
\n– Multimedia Space Elevator CD-ROM
\n– Space Elevator Blog
\n– Qualification Week
\n– Details on how you can help with the competition
\n– IAC conference pointer<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFirst and foremost, we have signed an MOU with the X-PRIZE foundation to hold the games at the X-PRIZE Cup in New Mexico on October 20th.\u00a0 The Cup is the most natural place for us to hold the competition – a weekend dedicated to emerging space technologies.\u00a0 Please check out their web site (<\/em>http:\/\/www.xprizecup.com<\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 We’d like to thank Peter Diamandis for his kind offer and cooperation!\u00a0\u00a0 This cup is a full-blown airshow style event, and we can think of no better way to spend the weekend – be there of be square!<\/em>
\nCD-ROM:
\nIn advance of the event, and in response to many requests, we have produced a Space Elevator Multi-Media CD-ROM which explains and illustrates the Space Elevator concept, its history, and Spaceward’s plans for advancing its cause.\u00a0\u00a0 The CD-ROM contains Alan Chan’s incredible computer generated Space Elevator movie, news coverage of last year’s competition, and a 50 minute narrated slideshow telling the story of the Space Elevator, starting in 1960 and continuing through today.\u00a0 The CD-ROM, like the rest of our branded items, is available as a gift acknowledging your donation at <\/em>http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\/site\/shop.html<\/em><\/a>. We also talked Alan Chan into throwing in a trailer for one of his current Sci-Fi projects, “Postcards from the Future”.\u00a0 Special thanks goes to Dave Carty, who produced the CD.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThere’s a new Space Elevator web site in town – <\/em>http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Ted Semon has been doing a phenomenal job with this Blog, and he deserves your support – check it out.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAs you know, we have a lot more teams registered this year than we had last year. ( 20 vs. 8 )\u00a0 For this reason, we will be holding a “testing and qualification” week, on site, starting on 10\/14. Only teams that can run successfully on a short 30-foot test track will move on to the main 200-foot event. For those of you who want to experience the competition up-close and personal, we’re looking for volunteers to help during that week – see below for details.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWe are looking to expand our staff of volunteers now, since the work pace is picking up. If you think you can help and have the time, please contact us at <\/em>elevator2010 AT spaceward.org<\/em><\/a>. There are three types of help we’re looking for:<\/em><\/p>\n
\n2. Help with running the qualification week (10\/14 – 10\/22).\u00a0 This is the core volunteer group that will help run the event.\u00a0 We will meet several times in the period leading to the competition, but the bulk of the work will be during that week, full time, on site.\u00a0 Example includes: video shoot and narration, technical hands, forklift and general driving, etc.\u00a0 A volunteer RV will depart Mountain View on 10\/13 (Friday evening) and drive back 10\/22 (Sunday evening)
\n3. Help during the show itself (10\/20 – 10\/21). This will include helping with various tasks at the event itself:<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFinally, for our fans in Europe, we’d like to point out this year IAC conference, to be held on October 6th in Valencia, Spain. Other then being a great international space forum, the conference will have a full Space Elevator session.\u00a0 The conference home page is at <\/em>http:\/\/www.iafastro.com\/index.php?id=78<\/em><\/a>
\nThat’s it for this update.\u00a0 We do have a few more things cooking, but we’re going to hold off on those until they’re ready, and this will give us good reason to send another update your way soon (rather than wait 3 months)<\/em><\/p>\n
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