For decades, the staggering cost of escaping Earth's gravity has limited our reach into space. Sending just one kilogram into orbit can run tens of thousands of dollars. Costs climb even higher for ...

A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year. Not ...

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Honestly, it's really more of a stratosphere elevator than a "space" elevator, but a new space elevator concept from Canadian company Thoth Technology(Opens in a new window) has some in the space ...

The established wisdom seems to be that it's not something we can expect to see any time soon, let alone see receiving a budget allotment. However, there's a few compelling reasons I can think of: So ...

For those of you who know what a space elevator is, you also know how difficult (some would say impossible) it will be to create one. Well, don’t tell that to the starry-eyed guys in Redmond this ...

I think you need to do some background reading. I'd suggest looking at the first two or three sections of this page on types of rocket engines. Stop at pressure-fed engines; the details of the ...