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Space elevators have been a scientific goal for several years. Scientists and astronauts are now moving closer to the idea of an elevator leading to space, and have even offered prizes for breakthroughs or designs of potential models. Now there are several competing models, including one from Japan. A space elevator would offer access to a satellite docking station and would require cables that are 180 times stronger than steel.TimesOnline: Japan Hopes to Turn Sci-Fi Into Reality With Elevator to The Stars
- First envisioned by Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise in 1979TimesOnline: Japan Hopes to Turn Sci-Fi Into Reality With Elevator to The Stars
- Cables would need to be approximately 22,000 miles longTimesOnline: Japan Hopes to Turn Sci-Fi Into Reality With Elevator to The Stars
- Cables would need to be light, strong and able to withstand items in the atmosphereTimesOnline: Japan Hopes to Turn Sci-Fi Into Reality With Elevator to The Stars
- Could carry people, generators, or radioactive wasteTimesOnline: Japan Hopes to Turn Sci-Fi Into Reality With Elevator to The Stars
- Would use 100 times less energy than a space shuttleTimesOnline: Japan Hopes to Turn Sci-Fi Into Reality With Elevator to The Stars
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Space Elevator on Amazon
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Liftport - The Space Elevator: Opening Space to Everyone - $14.95
Seen as merely a thought experiment for over a century, the space elevator is now understood to be achievable in our foreseeable future. It promises to open up the Solar System to all of humanity, and this book gives you a peek at that futu...
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Space Elevator - $11.99
The Journey Beyond the Source Beginning in the late 60s legendary German Band Tangerine Dream started forging a previously unheard world of otherworldly music and sound realized in large part through the use of Bob Moog's newly inven...
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Space Tethers and Space Elevators - $29.95
This detailed account of the possibilities of tethers in space, from very practical applications to (near) science fiction, gives an overview of the past, present and future of space tether development and presents the various concepts, ran...
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Space Elevator Systems Architecture - $8.95
An initial top-level view of a space elevator concept through space systems architecture and space systems engineering. The authors present an architecture for a space elevator by utilizing a systems approach to development of a mega-proje...
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