{"id":708,"date":"2007-08-22T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2007-08-27T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T23:07:09","slug":"elevator-reaches-for-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Elevator reaches for the stars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/UniversityOfAlbertaTeam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"91\" src=\"\/media\/tn_UniversityOfAlbertaTeam.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 91px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>In today&#8217;s edition of the Edmonton Journal, Keith Gerein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/cityplus\/story.html?id=34a1a8ab-490b-430c-8d91-e9e4b23eceea&amp;k=61343&amp;p=1\">writes<\/a> about the University of Alberta&#8217;s entry into this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 Money quote from\u00a0team member Chris Ryziuk in discussing their limited budget:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"96\" src=\"\/media\/UniversityOfAlbertaSpaceElevatorRacingTeamLogo.jpg\"  height=\"100\" style=\"width: 96px; height: 100px\" \/>&#8220;We can&#8217;t buy our way to victory, but a good design goes a long way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first article I&#8217;ve seen on this team &#8211; good to know that they&#8217;re active.\u00a0 They won&#8217;t reveal their Climber&#8217;s\u00a0power source so I guess we&#8217;ll just have to\u00a0wait.\u00a0 You can check out their team website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ece.ualberta.ca\/~elevator\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo credit: John Lucas from the Journal.\u00a0 Click on it or view the article for a larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s edition of the Edmonton Journal, Keith Gerein writes about the University of Alberta&#8217;s entry into this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games.\u00a0 Money quote from\u00a0team member Chris Ryziuk in discussing their limited budget: &#8220;We can&#8217;t buy our way to victory, but a good design goes a long way.&#8221; This is the first article I&#8217;ve seen [&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-708","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\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}