Thursday, 5 November 2009

Launching The Space Elevator Race

NASA's Centennial Challenges program and the Spaceward Foundation kicked off the Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday. Teams of engineers have their eye on the $2 million prize to be awarded to the first group to climb just over half a mile of a cable suspended from a helicopter near NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1780672/launching_the_space_elevator_race/index.html?source=r_space

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