Japan's Space Elevator

Japanese firm Obayashi Corporation are planning to take us to space via an elevator, just like the one envisaged by sci-fi luminaries such as Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

The 36,000-kilometer high, 200-kph lift will be ready by 2050, and will take passengers a tenth of the way to the moon.


The space elevator will 30 people and transport them using carbon nanotubes on the week long journey to a “terminal station,”.
The terminal station will house laboratories and living space, presumably enough for people to stretch their legs and gawp at the blackness, before hopping back inside for the week-long return leg.



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