{"id":332,"date":"2006-09-17T01:57:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T06:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2006-09-17T01:59:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T06:59:27","slug":"yet-another-reason-to-build-a-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Yet another reason to build a Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Parliament <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvoyagenews.com\/story\/195\">voted against<\/a> sending Madonna to the ISS, 252-42.\u00a0 Oh the humanity!!<\/p>\n<p>If we had a Space Elevator, she could just book a ride to ISS orbit, hop a shuttle craft, and pop on over (yes I know I&#8217;m oversimplifying).\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why the Russians refused her money &#8211; they&#8217;ve allowed others to pay their way to the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort<\/a> can talk her into being an investor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Parliament voted against sending Madonna to the ISS, 252-42.\u00a0 Oh the humanity!! If we had a Space Elevator, she could just book a ride to ISS orbit, hop a shuttle craft, and pop on over (yes I know I&#8217;m oversimplifying).\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why the Russians refused her money &#8211; they&#8217;ve allowed others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","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=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}