All that will keep you aloft is a slender ribbon that stretches from the top of that mid-ocean platform to your destination 100,000 kilometers into space. Welcome to the era of the space elevator.

Next month, the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) will meet in Seattle in hopes of furthering the cause. The basic concept involves carbon nanotube ribbon stretching from sea level to ...

Elevator:2010. We promise to get an answer for you by then." In order to work, the elevator's ribbons would have to be made of materials stronger than any that exist today; carbon nanotube ...

and an elevator cable, the “ribbon,” made of ultra-light, ultra-strong carbon nanotubes. Edwards’ design was inspired, in part, by Arthur C. Clarke’s description of a space elevator in The ...

the basic design of a possible future space elevator had been refined. Tsiolkovsky’s tower was replaced by a ribbon suspended from a space station in geosynchronous orbit over the equator.

Visitors will get the chance to ride in a double decker, all-glass elevator ascending the Space Needle on Friday. Time to get ...

After spending almost three months stranded at the International Space Station, two U.S. astronauts were told they would have to spend several months in space instead of returning home as ...

The expensive, dangerous business of rocketing people and cargo into space would become obsolete as elevators climb the ribbon and hoist occupants to any height they fancy: low, for space tourism; ...

And funding.” Right, the money. But first things first. A space elevator? It’s not exactly that. Think, rather, of a cable or ribbon, or perhaps a vertical railway with freight cars that move ...