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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…

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