{"id":411,"date":"2006-10-21T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2006-10-21T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T15:52:06","slug":"day-2-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 (Part 5) !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UBC-Snowstar failed in it&#8217;s attempt to climb the tether.\u00a0 They got on the tether in good order.\u00a0 When they first loosed the brake and attempted to climb, you could see the wheels on the climber turn, but it didn&#8217;t move.\u00a0 They clamped it back to the ribbon and made an adjustment to tighten the grip.\u00a0 When they tried it again, it did go up a few feet, but you could hear the wheels\/gears slipping.\u00a0 So, they&#8217;re done, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some pictures from the UBC-Snowstar attempt.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnails for a larger version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/SnowstarGettingReady.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_SnowstarGettingReady.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Getting on the tether.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/SnowstarLastAdjustment.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_SnowstarLastAdjustment.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Steve Jones tightening the grip.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/SnowstarIlluminated.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/2006SEGames\/tn_SnowstarIlluminated.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>Snowstar illuminated with the spotlights.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TurboCrawler is up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBC-Snowstar failed in it&#8217;s attempt to climb the tether.\u00a0 They got on the tether in good order.\u00a0 When they first loosed the brake and attempted to climb, you could see the wheels on the climber turn, but it didn&#8217;t move.\u00a0 They clamped it back to the ribbon and made an adjustment to tighten the grip.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-pictures-drawings-animations-music-humor-games","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","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=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}