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Elevator:2010
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.elevator2010.org
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
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, 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: An Advanced Earth-Space Infrastructure for the New Millennium
Publication based on findings from the Advanced Space Infrastructure Workshop on Geostationary Orbiting Tether "Space Elevator" Concepts, held in June 1999 at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.
www.affordablespaceflight.com/spaceelevator.html
Space Elevator: Next Stop, Earth Orbit
SPACE.com article outlining the key research areas that make a space elevator engineering fact rather than fancy. Dated December 2000.
www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_elevator_001226.html
The Space Elevator Blog: The Official Blog of the 2007 Space Elevator Games.
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
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
LiftWatch.org
Space elevator news, references, and discussion.
www.liftwatch.org
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
Spaceward Games 2007
Home of the 2007 Space Elevator Games. The Spaceward Games are all about far-reaching space exploration concepts, and how you can take part in them. Held at the Davis County Event Center, Utah; October 19-21, 2007.
www.spaceward.org/games07.html
Space Elevators: The Time for Laughing is Over
Article exploring the concept that has the potential to replace chemical based launch vehicles in the future. From May 2003.
www.physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=141&page=1
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....
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
LiftPort Group (LPG)
Working to build a complete space transportation infrastructure with a focus on the space elevator.
www.liftport.com
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
Space Elevator: 3rd Annual International Conference
Bringing together individuals and institutions interested in solving the challenges inherent in constructing the world's first space elevator.
www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconference
Institute for Scientific Research: The Space Elevator
Describes their project, a space elevator consisting of a ribbon extending from Earth to space that can be ascended by mechanical means.
www.isr.us/SEHome.asp

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