CANADIANS VIE FOR SPACE ELEVATOR VICTORY
A clutch of Canadian competitors is rising to the challenge in a NASA-funded contest that could eventually make a trip to space as easy as taking an elevator ? literally.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10...tor-061020.html
An elevator to space? Sounds like something geared for science fiction. We can barely get rockets off the ground, however all power to the Canadians if they accomplish it.
I think the space elevator will be something that can be achieved. We have the techology we just need to put it all in place. This will save a lot of money in fuel costs just to get a ship into orbit. If we can use that fuel to push a ship to the astroid belt and back to collect needed minerlas we can further aim for the stars.