Researcher: "the movement of people and supplies along it are much simpler and easier than the same journey in deep space."

These researchers want to run a cable from the Earth to the Moon

Going Up?

Researchers want to build Spaceline, a space elevator that consists of a cable from earth to the moon that will make space travel easier.

Researchers Building A Spaceline Cable From Earth to the Moon

It's a space elevator concept that could actually work.

These Researchers Want to Run a Cable From the Earth to the Moon

Space elevators are a long-time dream. New research could represent actual progress.

Scientists say new material could hold up an actual space elevator

Space Elevator

Researchers in Beijing say they've developed a carbon nanotube fiber so strong they believe it could actually be used to build a space elevator.

Scientists Say New Material Could Hold up an Actual Space Elevator

"This is a breakthrough."

The sci-fi mainstay is moving one step closer to reality.

Japan will soon conduct the first test of elevator movement in space

Off World

A team of researchers in Japan are ready to conduct the first test of their space elevator design using a small prototype and a pair of mini satellites.

Japan Will Soon Conduct The First Test of Elevator Movement in Space

It's an important step towards making a space elevator into a real, useful tool.

This hypothetical tether from Earth could cut the cost of sending materials to space from $20,000 per kilogram to perhaps as low as $200.
The concept is currently technologically impossible as we don't have material strong enough to serve as the tether, but a material breakthrough could make it a reality.

Space Elevators: From Science Fiction to Reality

These massive elevators could provide an alternative to wasteful chemical rockets.

We may soon take an elevator to get to space.

Sci-Fi Visions

This 12-Mile-High Elevator Will Reduce the Cost of Space Travel

Expensive, unsustainable rockets have served as our primary means to exit Earth, but space elevators present a cheaper way to enter outer space.
Although new materials are needed, space elevator missions are in motion and we could see the first elevator constructed in the next several decades.

Why Space Elevators Could Be the Future of Space Travel

They would lower the cost of launching into space by 99 percent.

According to a new paper, the material needed to make space elevators will be made by 2030.

New Study Says Space Elevators Will Be Feasible by 2030

Building a space elevator will be no easy task. But scientists around the globe are working on it, and they just had a major breakthrough.

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