Road to the Space Elevator Era
Road to the Space Elevator Era

Author: Peter A. Swan

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780991337033

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This study report summarizes the assessment of the space elevator as of the summer of 2018. The encouraging aspect is that the space elevator community has been reinvigorated and is pulling together experiments and test programs to push the technology along the path to readiness. Several of these breakthroughs are the ones we were searching for after completion of the first IAA study. We see the way forward!

Today's Space Elevator
Today's Space Elevator

Author: Peter Swan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-22

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 035993496X

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In the last year, the International Space Elevator Consortium assessed that basic technological needs can be met with current capabilities: and, each segment of the Space Elevator Transportation System is ready for engineering validation. Because of the availability of a new material as a potential Space Elevator tether, the community strongly believes that a Space Elevator will be initiated in the near term. Included in the book is a series of appendices that are tremendous references to the status of the space elevator today. Included are a lexicon of space elevator terms, over 750 references in the bibliography, short descriptions of eight ISEC year-long studies and two IAA 4-year studies on space elevators, as well as a summary of over 20 Architectural Notes covering the development of space elevator technologies.

Have Space Suit, Will Travel
Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2005-02-08

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1416505490

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A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.

The Space Elevator
The Space Elevator

Author: Bradley C. Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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The authors take the reader through the history of the concept, technical design and economic practicalities of building an elevator to space, and, ultimately, the implications of what such a low cost transportation system would mean to society. Based on three years of NASA-funded studies and written for the technically literate layperson, Edwards and Westling discuss the recent technological advances that now make the space elevator feasible. They conclude by addressing the effects that the space elevator could have on mankind's future from communications and energy to colonizing space.

Space Elevators: A History
Space Elevators: A History

Author: David Raitt

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1365806715

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Under the editorship of David Raitt, this timely book brings together for the first time the record of people, places, developments and activities, in fiction and in fact, of the space elevator - a 100,000 km long, meter wide, ribbon reaching up from the Earth and into space along which robotic climbers that will travel to bring payloads into orbit at a fraction of the price of rocket launches. The chapters in the book cover the early pioneers who dreamt up the concept initially some 120 years ago; the work of modern day scientists and engineers who have developed the concept into doable plans; how the concept has been portrayed in novels, films and art; the conferences at which interested people could present and discuss their work and ideas; the global community that has grown up around space elevators and the competition challenges that have been held; and what the future may hold.

The Mood Elevator
The Mood Elevator

Author: Larry Senn

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1523084626

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Urging us to cultivate mental attitudes like curiosity and gratitude that will keep us on the higher floors, this practical book explains how to quiet the mind and nurture positive thoughts without succumbing to Pollyannaish denial. --

To Space and Back
To Space and Back

Author: Sally Ride

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 1989-08-18

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780688091125

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Much has been written about the vast scientific importance of space exploration, but very little about the human side of being a member of an astronaut crew. In this book, with the help of journalist Susan Okie, Sally Ride shares the personal experience of traveling into space.America's first woman astronaut answers questions most frequently asked about a journey through space.