{"id":5,"date":"2009-11-12T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2010-06-28T20:29:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T03:29:55","slug":"space-elevator-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/12\/space-elevator-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From November 2 through November 6, I had the privilege to assist with the running of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorgames.org\/\">The 2009 Space Elevator Games<\/a>. Organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceward.org\/\">The Spaceward Foundation<\/a>, the games were held at NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/dryden\/home\/index.html\">Dryden Flight Research Center<\/a>, on the dry lake bed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwards.af.mil\/\">Edwards Air Force Base<\/a>. Three teams competed for two prizes totaling $2 million. For the games, I had the best seat in the house: playing the role of Tether Man in each cycle of attempts at the prizes. Here is a sample of what I was doing all week:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bo-MoVpDyOQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 2 through November 6, I had the privilege to assist with the running of The 2009 Space Elevator Games. Organized by The Spaceward Foundation, the games were held at NASA&#8217;s Dryden Flight Research Center, on the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base. Three teams competed for two prizes totaling $2 million&#8230;.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,4],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-engineering","tag-physics","tag-space-elevator"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Q7kW-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}