{"id":514,"date":"2007-01-25T17:17:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T23:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2007-01-26T00:17:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T06:17:58","slug":"twinkle-twinkle-little-star-was-that-an-elevator-car-industry-leader-otis-calls-nasa-elevator-to-orbit-feasible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, was that an elevator car? Industry leader Otis calls NASA elevator to orbit feasible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"\/media\/OtisLogo.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>In the interview with Dr. Bryan Laubscher on The Space Show last tuesday, Dr. Livingston somewhat jokingly\u00a0talked with\u00a0Dr. Laubscher about an &#8220;Otis&#8221; Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceref.com\/news\/viewpr.html?pid=2911\">story<\/a> from Space.com where John Thackrah, vice-president of Engineering for Otis said; &#8220;Today we have the technology to create elevator systems for a five-mile-high tower&#8230; At the rate of our development efforts we could apply technology we are working on for today\u2019s existing market to the NASA concept within the next 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also, I want to point my readers to a concept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=266785437&#038;size=o\">picture<\/a> of an Otis Space Elevator posted on Flickr\u00a0last October&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the interview with Dr. Bryan Laubscher on The Space Show last tuesday, Dr. Livingston somewhat jokingly\u00a0talked with\u00a0Dr. Laubscher about an &#8220;Otis&#8221; Space Elevator. This reminds me of this story from Space.com where John Thackrah, vice-president of Engineering for Otis said; &#8220;Today we have the technology to create elevator systems for a five-mile-high tower&#8230; At [&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-514","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\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}