{"id":6153,"date":"2012-08-28T05:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2012-08-27T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:54:19","slug":"from-rt-com-lift-off-lunar-space-elevator-may-be-built-by-2020-video-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/from-rt-com-lift-off-lunar-space-elevator-may-be-built-by-2020-video-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"(from RT.com)   &#8216;Lift off! Lunar &#8216;space elevator&#8217; may be built by 2020 (VIDEO, PHOTOS)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 US firm announced an ambitious project to build a lunar space elevator that could transport both robots and humans using an existing technology, in less than a decade. Fundraising efforts are already underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u00adFirm\u2019s founder and former NASA researcher Michael Laine stated that LiftPort Group is capable of building a lunar space elevator within this decade.<em> &#8220;About six months ago, we had a fundamental breakthrough, a breakthrough that we think is going to transform human civilization and we want you to be a part of it,&#8221; <\/em>Laine said.<\/p>\n<p>A lunar space elevator is a cable running from the surface of the moon into space. It is similar to a concept known as the earth space elevator, which is LiftPort\u2019s ultimate goal. The idea of the space elevator is designed to permit transport along the cable from a planetary surface directly into space without the use of large rockets. The cable would be held up due to the competing forces of gravity and the upward centrifugal force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ STORY CLICK ON THE MAP&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/lunar-space-elevator-2020-646\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6154\" title=\"rt-elevator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rt-elevator.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rt-elevator.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rt-elevator-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE AUG\/SEPT Z<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 US firm announced an ambitious project to build a lunar space elevator that could transport both robots and humans using an existing technology, in less than a decade. Fundraising efforts are already underway. \u00adFirm\u2019s founder and former NASA researcher Michael Laine stated that LiftPort Group is capable of building a lunar space elevator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}