{"id":642,"date":"2007-06-08T23:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T04:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2007-06-08T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T04:37:36","slug":"kc-space-pirates-saturday-demo-is-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"KC Space Pirates Saturday demo is off&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"119\" src=\"\/media\/KCSpacePiratesLogo.jpg\"  height=\"85\" style=\"width: 119px; height: 85px\" \/>From Brian Turner, fearless leader of the KC Space Pirates;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Well during the demo Friday we shelled the tranny, broke the anti-rotation rod and de-laminated some of the mirrors. The climber is in\u00a0for several hours of repair. And we also burned up most of our\u00a0personal energy setting up the whole thing. So rather than have\u00a0everyone come to a static display of a wounded climber we decided to\u00a0cancel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The good new is that the weather was beautiful. The audience was\u00a0patient and the New York times got some good shots. The artical is\u00a0slated for the July 1st Sunday edition of the New York Times. The\u00a0paper should be available in local book stores. The magazine is an\u00a0insert in the regular Sunday paper. The article is about the NASA\u00a0centennial challenges and we were the team picked for coverage of the\u00a0Beamed Power Competition. They also will be covering the space suit\u00a0glove competition and the Moon dirt digging challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More good news, We have been asked to be on the Walt Bodine Show on\u00a0Monday Morning. 89.3 FM 10 to 11 AM <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcur.org\/waltbodine.html\"><em>http:\/\/www.kcur.org\/waltbodine.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Talk to you more later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brian<br \/>\nCaptain,<br \/>\nKansas City Space Pirates<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, it sounds like the Romans gave Archimedes all he could handle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Brian Turner, fearless leader of the KC Space Pirates; Well during the demo Friday we shelled the tranny, broke the anti-rotation rod and de-laminated some of the mirrors. The climber is in\u00a0for several hours of repair. And we also burned up most of our\u00a0personal energy setting up the whole thing. So rather than have\u00a0everyone [&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-642","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\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}