{"id":998,"date":"2008-05-10T00:05:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=998"},"modified":"2008-05-12T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T19:13:52","slug":"more-kansas-city-space-pirates-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"More Kansas City Space Pirates news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"119\" src=\"\/media\/tn_SpacePiratesNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"85\" style=\"width: 119px; height: 85px\" \/>In his latest missive, we learn from Brian Turner, Captain of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcspacepirates.com\">KC Space Pirates<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Conan Show was a big hit. \u00a0I managed not to choke and remained rather articulate through the 5 min interview. \u00a0We did not however get to cover the competition, the team or the sponsors. \u00a0They were on the list but I had no idea how fast time would fly.\u00a0 I felt that I was on for only 30 seconds.\u00a0 We clearly managed to inform thousands of viewers about the space elevator and raise awareness.\u00a0 I saw a big jump in web site visitors but only received 1 small donation. \u00a0The show will be re-run at least once so even more may come of it.\u00a0 I will keep you posted. \u00a0You can go watch the video on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Late_Night_with_Conan_O'Brien\/video\/episodes.shtml\">NBC site<\/a> if you missed it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We mechanically steered a beam! \u00a0It was just a laser pointer and only in 1 dimension.\u00a0 Still it is a small but significant step in our mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are planning to go to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isdc2008.org\/\">ISDC<\/a> (International Space Development Conference) in Washington DC at the end of this month.\u00a0 I plan on meeting with potential supporters there and hopefully securing the funds needed for the rest of this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Turner<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest missive, we learn from Brian Turner, Captain of the KC Space Pirates that: The Conan Show was a big hit. \u00a0I managed not to choke and remained rather articulate through the 5 min interview. \u00a0We did not however get to cover the competition, the team or the sponsors. \u00a0They were on the [&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-998","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\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}