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Space Elevators: A History

A space elevator is a tremendous transportation infrastructure leveraging the rotation of the Earth to raise payloads from the Earth’s surface towards space and our solar system cheaply and routinely. T he concept of a space elevator is simple - comprising a ground terminal on the Earth’s surface tied to a space station by an enormously long tether or cable (100,000km) on which climber cars could deliver crew and cargo to space. This book, generated under the auspices of the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) History Committee, and edited by Dr David Raitt, covers the history of space elevator concepts and developments from 1895 to the present.

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