Comments on: Don’t forget the Space Elevator Games http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/10/20/dont-forget-the-space-elevator-games/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Gene Vorobyov http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/10/20/dont-forget-the-space-elevator-games/comment-page-1/#comment-32762 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 10:36:27 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/10/20/dont-forget-the-space-elevator-games/#comment-32762 We saw the University of Michigan team’s climber make it all the way to the top in about 6 and a half minutes. Pretty amazing, all things considered.

I still think this technology is still a very long-term project in terms of getting to even the orbit. But it would be great if it worked, at least in some way. And the competition itself does stimulate innovation, interest in space and science, and may be a driver for certain technologies. Realistically, it needs about 50 years.

So, when we go to Moon and Mars, it will still be in old-fashioned rockets.

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