Space Elevators: How a sci-fi dream could be built today
Surveying the current practical and theoretical factors for and against space elevators (including partial elevators—skyhooks!).
Surveying the current practical and theoretical factors for and against space elevators (including partial elevators—skyhooks!).
A Kickstarter project for space elevator research? Oh, hell yes!
I would really love to go to this. Our planet needs a space elevator.
An alternative to the space elevator, an inflatable tower nine miles tall and tethered to a mountain top, could be made of commercially available materials.
For those about to spacehack, we salute you. 2009-07-14, the Mojave desert.
A team competing in NASA's beamed power climber competition—a race to provide one of the technologies needed for building a space elevator. I doff my hat to these guys.