{"id":933,"date":"2008-02-22T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2008-02-22T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T20:04:05","slug":"space-elevators-and-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=933","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevators and Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/FodorsSpaceguide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"144\" src=\"\/media\/tn_FodorsSpaceGuide.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 144px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newswise.com\/articles\/view\/537998\/\">article<\/a> touting the possible nearness of space tourism contains the following quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A safer, cheaper launch system is critical if space travel is to become more commonplace in the future. An elevator rising tens of thousands of miles into space is one possibility that scientists and entrepreneurs are considering.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to discuss developments in the Space Elevator field and the role that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\">Spaceward Foundation<\/a> is playing in this endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>(With apologies to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fodors.com\/\">Fodors<\/a> for the proposed Guidebook cover\u00a0&#8211; click on it for a larger version.\u00a0 Picture of Shimizu Hotel on book cover from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spacefuture.com\/tourism\/hotels.shtml\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article touting the possible nearness of space tourism contains the following quote: &#8220;A safer, cheaper launch system is critical if space travel is to become more commonplace in the future. An elevator rising tens of thousands of miles into space is one possibility that scientists and entrepreneurs are considering.&#8221; The article goes on 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}