{"id":691,"date":"2007-07-31T14:26:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2007-08-02T00:42:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T05:42:42","slug":"a-story-from-last-years-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"A story from last year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"106\" src=\"\/media\/LiteWonLogo.jpg\"  height=\"94\" style=\"width: 106px; height: 94px\" \/>One of the entrants in last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\">Space Elevator Games<\/a> was LiteWon, a team made up of High School students from Westmont High School located in Campbell, CA.\u00a0 Their climber, certainly the least complicated one there, came up with the second best time to the top (a little over two minutes), losing out only to USST.\u00a0 This year, they are returning for another crack at the prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/LiteWonTeam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_LiteWonTeam.jpg\"  height=\"134\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 134px\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.community-newspapers.com\/archives\/campbellreporter\/20061101\/cover1.shtml\">story<\/a> ran in the November 1st, 2006 issue of the Campbell Reporter, one I hadn&#8217;t seen until Ben Shelef emailed it to me a few days ago.\u00a0 It really is well done and the photographs are wonderful.\u00a0 The author, Alicia\u00a0Upano, did a marvelous job.\u00a0 My favorite fact from the story was that their climber was powered by a motor from a model airplane.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see the story photos in all their glory, click on this <a href=\"\/media\/LiteWonStory.pdf\">link<\/a> to view the pdf of the story.\u00a0 Though this pdf file is large (2 MB), it is well,\u00a0worth the time it will take to download on your machine (IMHO).<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo credit: Jacqueline Ramseyer &#8211; click on it for a larger version.\u00a0 There are also several other excellent photos in the story)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the entrants in last year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games was LiteWon, a team made up of High School students from Westmont High School located in Campbell, CA.\u00a0 Their climber, certainly the least complicated one there, came up with the second best time to the top (a little over two minutes), losing out only to [&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-691","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\/691","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=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}