August 13, 2002
Space Elevator

NASA has given Seattle-based Highlift $570,000 to continue work on a space elevator. Arthur C. Clarke anticipated this (as he had with geosynchronous satellites) in his 1979 "The Fountains of Paradise". Here's a review and a link to the book at Amazon.com.

Thanks to Slashdot for jogging my memory.
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Posted by Dave at August 13, 2002 12:17 PM