Coverage of space elevator conference on msnbc.com

From: David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 15:30:30 MDT


http://www.msnbc.com/news/796283.asp?0na=x22136F6

SEATTLE, Aug. 19 — The world’s space programs are vertically
challenged. What’s needed is a revolutionary low-cost way to move payloads
and people into Earth orbit and then outward to the asteroids, Mars and
beyond. Now an upstart company of enterprising engineers and investment
strategists want to tackle the ultimate high-rise project for the 21st
century: the space elevator. They are on the ground floor of putting
calculations to paper and wrestling with the toughest challenges.

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