Jerome Pearson (19 April 1938 – 27 Jan 2021) [1] was an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators, including a lunar space elevator. He was president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA. He held several patents and was the ...

In an historic meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia in August of 2006, the two inventors of the space elevator met for the first time, when Jerome Pearson visited Yuri Artsutanov and they talked, through an interpreter, outside the Hermitage Museum.

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In 1975, Jerome Pearson independently came up with the Space elevator concept and published it in Acta Astronautica. That made the aerospace community at large aware of the space elevator for the first time.

Dec 30, 2024 · Jerome Pearson, co-founder of the space elevator and a long-time member of the History Committee, passed away early in 2021. Although Jerome conceived the idea of the space elevator in 1969, it was not until 1975 that his ideas on the space elevator were published in an article “The Orbital Tower: A Spacecraft Launcher Using the Earth’s ...

Jerome Pearson (19 April 1938 – 27 Jan 2021) was an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators, including a lunar space elevator. He was president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA.

The space elevator was invented first by Leningrad engineer Yuri Artsutanov1 in the 1960’s, but was not noticed by the Western spaceflight community until the Principal Investigator Jerome Pearson2 invented it independently and published in Acta Astronautica.

Jerome Pearson (19 April 1938 – 27 Jan 2021) [1] was an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators, including a lunar space elevator. He was president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA. He held several patents and was the ...

Jan 18, 2015 · Mr. Jerome Pearson was the Speaker and talked about his history with the noted Science Fiction author, Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

Jerome Pearson (born 1938) is an American engineer and space scientist best known for his work on space elevators, including a lunar space elevator. He is president of STAR, Inc., and has developed aircraft and spacecraft technology for the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA.