Scientists Take Major Step Toward Building First Elevator to Space

Scientists take major step toward building first elevator to space

Forget rockets. Scientists are working on a giant elevator that could carry people and cargo into space. The idea has been around for more than a century, but there’s always been one enormous problem. What do you build a 62,000-mile-long cable out of without it snapping under its own weight? Researchers now think they may […] Read the original article here: Scientists take major step toward building first elevator to space

First ‘space elevator’ — a 66,000-mile cable to the cosmos— closer than ever before as scientists make breakthrough

A Space Elevator is a simple yet mind-bending concept: an ultra-strong electrified cable running from a point on the ground at Earth’s equator, extended out beyond geostationary orbit (GEO), where a counterweight will float in space keeping it taut. Vessels then climb the cable to deliver goods, people and machines, passing through the atmosphere and into space.