How Space Elevators Will Work
Submitted: May 3, 2008 - When the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to begin the first space shuttle mission, the dream of a reusable spacecraft was realized. Since then, NASA has launched more than 100 missions, but the price tag of space missions has changed little.
A new space transportation system being developed could make travel to Geostationary Earth Orbit…

