Humanity's quest to explore—and, perhaps eventually, colonize—outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via ...
A 3D model of a space elevator. Credit: Bruce Irving/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The space elevator has been a staple of science fiction for decades, from The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke to the ...
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