{"id":629,"date":"2007-05-27T04:24:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T09:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2007-05-27T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T18:46:08","slug":"space-elevator-solution-for-building-a-lunar-colony-to-be-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Space-Elevator solution for building a Lunar colony to be proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/LunarDrawing_w450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"146\" src=\"\/media\/tn_LunarDrawing_w450.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 146px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>At the Space Elevator Reference, Dr. Brad Edwards\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevator.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/rutgers_symposi.html\">writes<\/a> about a proposal he is going to present to\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunarbase.rutgers.edu\/\">Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements<\/a>, to be held in New Brunswick, NJ, on June 3-8 (of this year!).\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0Edwards will be presenting a proposal on how NASA can build and supply a lunar base for about half the cost, and with much greater capacity,\u00a0than the current NASA program.<\/p>\n<p>The backbone of this proposal will be the development of two, earth-based Space Elevators.<\/p>\n<p>This really and truly rocks.\u00a0 And, reading between the lines here, I&#8217;ve got to think that someone, somewhere must be close to announcing a breakthrough in the development of carbon nanotubes of the quality and quantity\u00a0which are needed.\u00a0 Either that, or else Dr. Edwards believes he can convince NASA that a big check can solve the problem quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if this happens, and NASA is the lead developer, then it would prove my prediction of a private US consortium (or a joint venture between Dubai and India) as being the first developers of a Space Elevator as being wrong.\u00a0 Gee, I&#8217;d sure hate that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/BradEdwardsPicture2.jpg\"  \/>I&#8217;d love to go to this symposium, but don&#8217;t think I can.\u00a0 From the symposium program, it\u00a0appears that Dr. Edwards is scheduled to speak from 8:30-9:15am on Thursday, June 7th.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope\u00a0Dr. Edwards will make the details of this proposal available soon to all of us.\u00a0 This is the kind of project which the entire space community can and should get behind.\u00a0 Not only would it be beneficial for Lunar colonization, but for Martian colonization as well.\u00a0 And once a Space Elevator (or two) is in place, it changes the entire ballgame regarding space exploration.<\/p>\n<p>I say again, this rocks, this well and truly rocks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Lunar base drawing courtesy of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabenaroya.com\"><em>Ana Benaroya<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnail for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Space Elevator Reference, Dr. Brad Edwards\u00a0writes about a proposal he is going to present to\u00a0the Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements, to be held in New Brunswick, NJ, on June 3-8 (of this year!).\u00a0 Dr.\u00a0Edwards will be presenting a proposal on how NASA can build and supply a lunar base for about half the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}