- Elevator:2010 - The Space Elevator Challenge
Follow along with the Space Elevator Games. Elevator:2010 features details about university and school level competitions for building working space elevator sub-scale prototypes.
www.spaceward.org/elevator2010
- Wikipedia: Space Elevator
User-edited article about space elevators, the theoretical structures designed to transport material from a planet's surface into space.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
- Space Elevator Reference, The
Serves as a reference tool for those interested in exchanging ideas on the scientific, engineering, economic, and policy challenges inherent in constructing the solar systems first space elevator.
www.spaceelevator.com
- The Space Elevator Blog
Compendium of all space-elevator-related items, postings, announcements, blog-entries, artwork, and interviews the author has been able to locate on the Internet.
www.spaceelevatorblog.com
- How Stuff Works: How Space Elevators Will Work
Introduction to the design and technology basics behind the huge base tower, cable, and space tether that could make mass space transit a reality in the 21st century.
www.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm
- Space Elevators Get a Lift
SpaceDaily article taking a look at the extraordinarily demanding yet feasible technological requirements for such a project.
www.spacedaily.com/news/future-01f.html
- Space Elevators, Space Hotels, and Space Tourism
Research paper describing a conceptual design for a transportation system to carry passengers into space.
www.spacefuture.com/archive/space_elevators_space_hotels_and_space_tourism....
- Space Elevators
Article which looks at the second-generation space transportation systems: skyhooks and space elevators.
www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/1976.skyhook/1982.articles/elevate....
- Why Build It?
NOVA scienceNOW questions and answers with physicist Bradley Edwards addressing the benefits of space elevators.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3401/02-why-flash.html
- Audacious & Outrageous: Space Elevators
Article about how NASA scientists are seriously considering space elevators as a mass-transit system for the next century.
www.science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast07sep_1.htm
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