{"id":439,"date":"2006-11-12T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2006-11-13T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:14:49","slug":"onward-and-upward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Onward (and upward)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I had posted a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=437\">article<\/a> predicting a functioning Space Elevator by 2099.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/other_business\/article\/0,2777,DRMN_23916_5135584,00.html\">article<\/a> that predicts the first attempt to launch a Space Elevator (in 2025) will fail, but that &#8220;By 2050 we will have fully functioning space elevators operating at full capacity, moving both people and supplies into space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Better than 2099, but still not good enough.\u00a0 2015 is the number I&#8217;m looking for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I had posted a link to an article predicting a functioning Space Elevator by 2099.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s an article that predicts the first attempt to launch a Space Elevator (in 2025) will fail, but that &#8220;By 2050 we will have fully functioning space elevators operating at full capacity, moving both people and supplies into space.&#8221; [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","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\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}