{"id":724,"date":"2007-09-10T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2007-09-10T14:33:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T19:33:29","slug":"the-x-prize-cup-and-the-space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"The X-Prize Cup and the Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/Rocketman.jpg\"  height=\"118\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 118px\" \/>As many\u00a0readers know, last year the Space Elevator Games were held in conjunction with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.org\/xprizecup\/\">X Prize Cup<\/a> in Las Cruces, New Mexico.\u00a0 While it was nice to have the two events together, it certainly wasn&#8217;t without its problems.\u00a0 At times, the Space Elevator games seemed to be the &#8220;poor stepchild&#8221; of the games; events that were happening there were occasionally\u00a0not announced on the speaker system and therefore ignored by the crowds; the webcam\/tv coverage of the Space Elevator portion of the entire event was nonexistant and, on a personal note, the Press tent was way the hell away from the SE Games &#8211; making it a royal PITA to cover the event and live blog it as I did.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"277\" src=\"\/media\/SpacePrizesLogo.jpg\"  height=\"71\" style=\"width: 277px; height: 71px\" \/>On the Space Prizes Blog, Ray\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceprizes.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/space-show-on-space-elevator-games.html\">writes<\/a> about the other side of the coin; that not having these two events together will make seeing both of them much harder.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t fault his logic, but I know that I&#8217;m not going to miss the &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture of the RocketMan from the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketman.org\/\"><em>RocketMan website<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many\u00a0readers know, last year the Space Elevator Games were held in conjunction with the X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico.\u00a0 While it was nice to have the two events together, it certainly wasn&#8217;t without its problems.\u00a0 At times, the Space Elevator games seemed to be the &#8220;poor stepchild&#8221; of the games; events [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}