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Stories about: space elevators

Japan to Build Elevator to Space in Four Decades The first space elevator could become a tangible reality by 2050, if a Japanese company goes through with recently announced plans to construct such a device. These elevators would serve to put people in space without the use of rockets. Having access to such an instrument would have considerable benefits, especiall... 23 February 2012 08:38 GMT Space-Elevator Contest Rescheduled for November 4 The 2009 Space Elevator Power-Beaming Challenge Games have recently been rescheduled for November 4, a few months after the initial term, on July 14, the Spaceward Foundation has announced. The competition will therefore take place in about three weeks, at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), within the con... 16 October 2009 05:59 GMT Space Elevators, Too Shaky for Use Today, anybody or anything which must be transported into Earth's orbit is carried with the help of space rockets. Nonetheless, alternative space transportation devices such as space elevators, for example, could one day make space travel a whole lot faster, safer and cheaper than the conventional methods curren... 29 March 2008 06:06 GMT