{"id":940,"date":"2008-03-02T15:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2008-03-03T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T07:32:16","slug":"national-space-society-nss-space-elevator-team-to-use-trumpf-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"National Space Society (NSS) Space Elevator team to use TRUMPF lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img STYLE=\"width: 162px; height: 72px\" HEIGHT=\"72\"  SRC=\"\/media\/NSSLogo.jpg\" WIDTH=\"162\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I received this email from Bert Murray, captain of one of the new entries into this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games, the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nss.org\/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">National Space Society (NSS)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hi Ted,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I thought I would let you know that the NSS team has made a deal with TRUMPF where they are a major partner in our effort. We have also obtain a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) educational, non-profit corporation status. This 501(c)(3) status we believe will make the team more attractive to sponsors<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bert<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes THREE teams that have reached agreement with <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trumpf-laser.com\/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">TRUMPF<\/a> to use their lasers for this year&#8217;s Climber \/ Power-Beaming event in the Space Elevator Games; the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=924\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Kansas City Space Pirates<\/a>, the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=938\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Queens Space Engineering Team<\/a> and now NSS.\u00a0 <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">Lasermotive<\/a> and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.usst.ca\/\" TARGET=\"_blank\">USST<\/a> also should be entering laser-powered climbers so that&#8217;s FIVE laser-powered teams we should see this year.<\/p>\n<p><strike>Only 159 more days&#8230;<\/strike><\/p>\n<p>03\u00a0March,\u00a02008\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Correction.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0can&#8217;t\u00a0count\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0that\u00a0should\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0190\u00a0more\u00a0days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received this email from Bert Murray, captain of one of the new entries into this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games, the National Space Society (NSS): Hi Ted, I thought I would let you know that the NSS team has made a deal with TRUMPF where they are a major partner in our effort. We have [&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-940","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\/940","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=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}