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Saturday science subject: Climbing up the space elevator

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Saturday science subject: Climbing up the space elevator

The Tech Report

Site: The Tech Report

Publication date: 11/07/2009 5:03 PM

Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that the space elevator will be built about 10 years after everybody stops laughing. We're certainly getting there: as New Scientist reports, NASA has awarded a $900,000 prize to a team that developed a robotic climber capable of ascending a cable at 3.9...

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