Brian Turner of the Kansas City Space Pirates - one of the groups competing in the Space Elevator Games - will be a guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Friday, May 2. The late night funny man will interview Turner about space elevators, according to the Space Elevator Games blog. So, tune in or set your TiVo.
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Three brief updates from the Space Elevator Blog….
Participants can now register for the 2008 Space Elevator Conference, which will be held in Redmond, Washington on July 18-20.
The blog also has an interview with Team DeltaX and Nanocomp, which entered a carbon nanotube tether in last year’s Space Elevator Games. DeltaX’s Stephen Steiner and David Lashmore of Nanocomp discuss their joint efforts. DeltaX has a great heritage: it comes out of MIT.
The Kansas City Space Pirates, another competitor in the Space Elevator Games, reports that their new sponsor, Thorlabs, will provide most or all of the group’s “optical needs.”
The Space Elevator Blog has an interesting piece about a change at the top of NASA’s Centennial Challenges, a program that funds the Space Elevator Games and other entrepreneurial programs.
Ken Davidian is stepping and will replaced by Andy Petro, a former Johnson Space Flight Center engineer who came to NASA Headquarters in January. In an email, Petro discussed his new position:
“My title is Program Executive for the Innovation Incubator which, in addition to the Centennial Challenges, includes a program to increase the availability of space environment testing opportunities for emerging technologies (such as parabolic aircraft flights and eventually suborbital flights) and a program to bring fresh ideas into NASA by allowing some employees to work for a time in outside organizations.”
You can read the full story here.
The National Space Society is looking for volunteers to help it compete the 2008 and 2009 Space Elevator Games. Bert Murray, leader of the NSS team in the power beaming competition, recently put out a call for 10-20 volunteers.
To learn more about the Space Elevator Games, visit the group’s blog.
