{"id":644,"date":"2007-06-10T14:59:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2007-06-10T15:01:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T20:01:55","slug":"the-concept-is-not-of-interest-to-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The concept is not of interest to NASA&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/media\/NoNewIdeas.jpg\"  height=\"146\" style=\"width: 144px; height: 146px\" \/>This quote is taken from\u00a0Dr. Brad Edward&#8217;s\u00a0PowerPoint presentation posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunarbase.rutgers.edu\/\">Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements<\/a> website.\u00a0 This presentation, titled &#8220;A Space Elevator for the Moon&#8221;, proposed that two, earth-based Space Elevators be built to supply the materials needed to do Lunar exploration in a robust way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite persuasive, with the only caveat being the technology: &#8220;Immature but quickly developing&#8221;.\u00a0 The advantages are clear; greatly reduced launch costs and greatly reduced launch risk.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the PowerPoint presentation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunarbase.rutgers.edu\/presentations\/Bradley_Edwards.ppt\">here<\/a> and the abstract of his speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunarbase.rutgers.edu\/files\/Abstract_Book.pdf\">here<\/a> (Bob Munck alert &#8211; it&#8217;s a pdf file.\u00a0 Dr. Edwards abstract is on page 62).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully all is not bleak, though.\u00a0 A new administration will be elected next year and, while I have no reason to believe that they would encourage NASA to be more innovative, they could hardly make it worse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote is taken from\u00a0Dr. Brad Edward&#8217;s\u00a0PowerPoint presentation posted on the Rutgers Symposium on Lunar Settlements website.\u00a0 This presentation, titled &#8220;A Space Elevator for the Moon&#8221;, proposed that two, earth-based Space Elevators be built to supply the materials needed to do Lunar exploration in a robust way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite persuasive, with the only caveat being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","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=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}