{"id":399,"date":"2006-10-20T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2006-10-20T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T16:34:17","slug":"day-1-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 (Part 1) !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/\/images\/tn_snowstarlogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Well, today is the day.\u00a0 Things are behind, but moving along.\u00a0 UBC-Snowstar is now on the tether and should be attempting it&#8217;s first climb shortly.\u00a0 I understand this is being simultaneously webcast, so you should be able to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprizecup.org\/\">http:\/\/www.xprizecup.org\/<\/a> and see it live, if you want, you can view it there, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I learned while getting my press credentials from the XPrize people (who have been fantastic, by the way) was that the original crane\u00a0which was to be used for the tether competition weighed 30 tons!\u00a0 This was too heavy and would have damaged the tarmac, so they had to find an alternative crane.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always something, isn&#8217;t it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today is the day.\u00a0 Things are behind, but moving along.\u00a0 UBC-Snowstar is now on the tether and should be attempting it&#8217;s first climb shortly.\u00a0 I understand this is being simultaneously webcast, so you should be able to go to http:\/\/www.xprizecup.org\/ and see it live, if you want, you can view it there, too&#8230; One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}