NIAC Phase I\u00a0report<\/a> that Dr. Brad Edwards did for NASA also had a timeline in it.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how the two mesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LiftPort has released their long-awaited “Road Map” and “Questions database” to building a functioning Space Elevator.\u00a0 The good news is that\u00a0these documents have\u00a0been released.\u00a0 The bad news is that\u00a0LiftPort has now\u00a0come to the conclusion that it’s going to take longer (13 years longer to be exact) to get the first one functional then first thought.\u00a0 […]<\/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-356","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\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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LiftPort has released their long-awaited “Road Map” and “Questions database” to building a functioning Space Elevator.\u00a0 The good news is that\u00a0these documents have\u00a0been released.\u00a0 The bad news is that\u00a0LiftPort has now\u00a0come to the conclusion that it’s going to take longer (13 years longer to be exact) to get the first one functional then first thought.\u00a0 I’ll be too old by then – guess I’m going to have to get involved and find some ways to shorten the development of this thing…<\/p>\n