Nasa and Spaceward will award $2m (£1.2m) to a team that can send a lift a half mile into the sky Next stop: Space. Going up? Some engineers, science fiction writers and scientists say the future of space travel lies not in... [read full story]
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Posted by Chris Smith on Fri 6 Nov 2009 And she's buying an elevator to space... While it seem may like a tale from a science fiction novel - well, actually it is - NASA scientists are undertaking research that could see an...
Nasa and Spaceward will award $2m (£1.2m) to a team that can send a lift a half mile into the sky Next stop: Space. Going up? Some engineers, science fiction writers and scientists say the future of space travel lies not in...
It sounds like science fiction. Now, 30 years after "2001" author Arthur C. Clarke wrote about an elevator that rises into outer space, serious research is happening all over the world in an effort to make the...
Success in 'space elevator' competition (Update 3) A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the...
By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 05 November 2009 Pull me up, Scotty. At least one team has qualified for part of a $2 million prize up for grabs in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build...
Nasa and Spaceward will award $2m (£1.2m) to a team that can send a lift a half mile into the sky Next stop: Space. Going up? Some engineers, science fiction writers and scientists say the future of space travel lies not in...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of...
A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of...
Brian Turner (L) and Dan Leafblad prepare the KC Space Pirates robotic climber for its run in the Space Elevator Games at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Picture: AP LASER-powered elevators are being tested in the...
A laser-powered robot failed to complete its climb up a long cable dangling from a helicopter Wednesday in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators. The highly...
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