{"id":499,"date":"2007-01-17T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2007-01-18T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T22:36:19","slug":"india-and-the-space-elevator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"India and the Space Elevator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted some articles previously (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=434\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=313\">here<\/a>) about mentions of the Space Elevator in the Indian Press.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/release\/release.asp?relid=24116\">Here<\/a> is an article where the president of a Science Center in India speaks to his students and talks about, among other things, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his invention of the concept of the Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/APJAbdulKalam.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><em>Jan 18, 2007 Update &#8211; A reader posts a comment that Dr. Kalam, the person who made the address that I&#8217;m referring to, is actually the President of India, not just of this Science Center.\u00a0 I got confused &#8211; I thought that Manmohan Singh was the President of India, but I was wrong.\u00a0 He&#8217;s the Prime Minister of India.\u00a0 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, indeed is the President of India.\u00a0 My sincerest apologies to Dr. Kalam and all those I may have misled.\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/presidentofindia.nic.in\/scripts\/presidentprofile.jsp\"><em>Here<\/em><\/a><em> is a link to a webpage about him &#8211; he has a very impressive technical background.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Imagine that, a President of a rapidly developing country, a nuclear power and a country with an active Space Program and he&#8217;s familiar with the Space Elevator.\u00a0 In Dr. Edwards latest book, he indicates that six areas on the globe are potential sites for the Space Elevator.\u00a0 Two of these are in the Indian Ocean and India is the country that has an active space program and is closest to these two points.\u00a0 Hmmmm&#8230;. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted some articles previously (here and here) about mentions of the Space Elevator in the Indian Press.\u00a0 Here is an article where the president of a Science Center in India speaks to his students and talks about, among other things, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and his invention of the concept of the Space Elevator. Jan 18, [&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-499","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\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}