"Neil deGrasse Tyson visits the Lift$Port Group in Bremerton, Washington. The entrepreneurs and engineers at LiftPort think space elevators aren’t just a wild idea; they’ve staked their corporati

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"I ran into Brian Dunbar of the Liftport Company in the comments section over at Murdoc Online, and asked him if he’d do an interview." This is part one thereof.

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Questions and answers about space elevators with Bradley Edwards.

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"For a space elevator travelling at the current proposed speed of 200 kilometres per hour, however, passengers might spend half a week in the belts. That would hit them with 200 times the radiati

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"The Space Elevator games just finished up today and it was quite an event. In this post I would like to summarize the games, both the results and the behind the scenes, what it implies and what

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" ... the road map to space elevator development, outlining what tests and demonstrations need to be done before we can build the first SE." Liftport lays out the agenda. Go for it, guys!

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"Each of the groups that will gather in New Mexico is competing to win a Nasa prize set up to encourage entrepreneurs to start development work on the technology needed to create a space elevator

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