{"id":485,"date":"2007-01-09T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2007-01-09T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T19:20:27","slug":"updates-from-the-spaceward-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Updates from The Spaceward Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/SpacewardFoundationLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I received this email earlier today from Ben Shelef, CEO of The Spaceward Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hello Folks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A short email this time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>First and foremost, Joe McMaster and Anna Lee Strachan from Nova wanted us to remind you to tune in to their Space Elevator segment today (Tuesday, January 9) at 8pm on PBS \u2013 check your local listing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joe and Anna came down to watch and film the competition at Las Cruces last October, so there may footage there we&#8217;ve never seen before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The show URL is <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/sciencenow\/3401\/02.html\"><em>http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/sciencenow\/3401\/02.html<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Another item that was on our back burner for way too long is a comprehensive FAQ section, which you can now browse at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\/faq.html\"><em>http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\/faq.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Vern McGeorge for getting this project going so many months ago. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have a lot more questions and answers on file \u2013 we\u2019ll be updating the FAQ on a regular basis.\u00a0 If you have a question you want answered, go ahead and email us.\u00a0 If you have a question and an answer and maybe a nice illustration to go with \u2013 email them too and we may add them to the FAQ, with credits.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Finally, team registration is in progress towards the early-bird registration deadline at the end of this month.\u00a0 More details will follow in February, when we have an official headcount.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 Ben, Meekk and the Spaceward Crew<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this email earlier today from Ben Shelef, CEO of The Spaceward Foundation. \u00a0 Hello Folks. A short email this time. First and foremost, Joe McMaster and Anna Lee Strachan from Nova wanted us to remind you to tune in to their Space Elevator segment today (Tuesday, January 9) at 8pm on PBS \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}