The Space Elevator - Public or Private?

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Space Elevator

Space Elevator 06/25/2004 11:33 PM

Scientist Imagines Elevator Reaching 62,000 Miles Into Space: This seems so wrong on so many levels.

President Bush wants to return to the moon and put a man on Mars. But scientist Bradley C. Edwards has an idea that's really out of this world: an elevator that climbs 62,000 miles into space.

Edwards thinks an initial version could be operating in 15 years, a year earlier than Bush's 2020 timetable for a return to the moon. He pegs the cost at $10 billion, a pittance compared with other space endeavors.

Wikipedia has a huge article on this concept, in which they say this:

A space elevator would present a considerable navigational hazard, both to aircraft and spacecraft. Aircraft could be dealt with [...], but spacecraft are a more difficult problem. Over a long period of time all satellites with perigees below geostationary altitude would eventually collide with the space elevator, as their orbits precess around Earth.

Yeah, that sounds safe.

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Space elevator in 15 years?

Space elevator in 15 years? 06/26/2004 07:29 AM
USA Today Jun 26 2004 12:07PM GMT

Space Elevator Update

Space Elevator Update 04/09/2005 10:52 PM

Scientist envisions space elevator

Scientist envisions space elevator 06/29/2004 01:37 PM
Sympatico Jun 29 2004 4:59PM GMT

Space Elevator Prizes Proposed

Space Elevator Prizes Proposed 08/28/2004 07:49 AM

Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator
Conference

Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator
Conference 07/06/2004 06:29 AM
Slashdot Jul 6 2004 10:30AM GMT

Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15
Years

Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15
Years 06/25/2004 08:27 PM

Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15
Years (AP)

Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15
Years (AP) 06/25/2004 05:30 PM
AP - President Bush wants to return to the moon and put a man on Mars. But scientist Bradley C. Edwards has an idea that's really out of this world: an elevator that climbs 62,000 miles into space.

Yahoo! News - Scientist Sees Space
Elevator in 15 Years

Yahoo! News - Scientist Sees Space
Elevator in 15 Years 06/26/2004 04:33 AM
Yahoo! News: Scientist Sees Space Elevator in 15 Years .. Which floor please?

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Private spaceship almost in space

Private spaceship almost in space 05/13/2004 09:29 PM
A privately-built manned spacecraft has reached a record altitude of 212,000ft on one of its final tests before officially entering space.

private space flight!

private space flight! 06/21/2004 01:56 PM
congrats to the Scaled Composites team, and here's hoping we get back to space soon

First Private Shot At Space

First Private Shot At Space 06/20/2004 06:52 PM
CBS News Jun 20 2004 10:52PM GMT

Private vs. Public Companies

Private vs. Public Companies 02/18/2004 01:33 PM
What makes a company "public"?

Can Google Be Public and Private?

Can Google Be Public and Private? 05/31/2004 07:02 PM
E-Commerce Times-10 hours ago ... For all that Google has done to revive interest in technology and IPOs in recent weeks, it also has provided new fodder for a long-running debate: Is going ...

Private rocket zooms into space

Private rocket zooms into space 06/21/2004 12:36 PM
ZDNet Jun 21 2004 5:01PM GMT

First Private Space Flight Success

First Private Space Flight Success 06/21/2004 10:54 AM
CBS News Jun 21 2004 3:32PM GMT

Private Space Shot a Success

Private Space Shot a Success 06/22/2004 05:53 AM
SpaceShipOne climbs to an altitude of 62 miles Monday before dropping safely to the ground. It's the first privately financed manned excursion into space. Dan Brekke reports from Mojave, California.

Private craft rockets into space

Private craft rockets into space 06/21/2004 12:12 PM
BBC Jun 21 2004 3:05PM GMT

Private Rocket Will Try and Reach Space
(AP)

Private Rocket Will Try and Reach Space
(AP) 06/02/2004 07:52 PM
AP - A privately developed manned rocket will attempt to reach space this month, its builders said Wednesday. It would be the first non-governmental flight to leave Earth's atmosphere.

Private rocket will try to reach space

Private rocket will try to reach space 06/02/2004 06:26 PM

Surveillance Cameras Reduce Private
Space (AP)

Surveillance Cameras Reduce Private
Space (AP) 04/18/2005 12:14 AM
AP - It's there when you ride an elevator and make a purchase in a store. There's no escaping it in a museum. Look up at the stoplight and a camera may be watching you. Being lens-shy just doesn't cut it in today's camera-crazed world. Chances are, during a good part of your day, there's a camera nudging into your private space.

World's first private manned space
flight

World's first private manned space
flight 06/19/2004 04:53 PM

I am quite excited about Mondays flight that if it succeeds will result in a significant event in manned spaceflight. The first ever successful private launch into space. I am sure their will be Television coverage of the launch and being I am laid up in bed recovering I will definitely be tuned in.

My dad who does not follow these types of things closely was even aware of the launch and he posed a question to my Mom if she would pay to go. Her answer was no but the speculated correctly that I would jump at the chance. I am hoping that in my lifetime it will be affordable to view the earth from space. This frontier has been limited to the chosen ones and to think we are on the doorstep of opening manned spaceflight to regular Joe's and Janes.

Some of you have read Science Fiction books where people travel to other solar systems spending a lifetime doing so forever leaving the bounds of earth. I wonder in my mind how far we are away from doing this. I am sure someday someone will be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for the chance of a one way trip to the outer reaches of the solar system. Obviously we have a long way to go in that propulsion systems that have yet to be invented would be needed to push a spacecraft to the velocities needed to achieve such a thing. Pushing ones imagination you would have to raise children in space to continue the mission as the original crew would never make it in a lifetime. Probably to far fetched to consider but if the human race makes it another 1000 years imagine the possibilities. [w ww.scaled.com]

Private Rocket Plane Heads to Space

Private Rocket Plane Heads to Space 06/21/2004 12:14 PM
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) -- A rocket plane soared toward space Monday in a historic attempt to make the first privately financed spaceflight.

U.S. on verge of private space travel
(USATODAY.com)

U.S. on verge of private space travel
(USATODAY.com) 02/10/2004 08:50 AM
USATODAY.com - Two U.S. teams are so close to launching people into space that they have applied for licenses from the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA officials said Monday.

Private space ship 'back to form'

Private space ship 'back to form' 07/08/2004 09:02 AM
Record-breaking private space craft, SpaceShipOne, is back on course to vie for a prestigious space prize.

Private rocket plane touches space

Private rocket plane touches space 06/21/2004 12:12 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 21 2004 4:18PM GMT

CNN.com - Private craft flies into space
- Jun 21, 2004

CNN.com - Private craft flies into space
- Jun 21, 2004 06/21/2004 11:02 AM
the first private manned spacecraft .. sagt .. cnn

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US edges closer to private space flight

US edges closer to private space flight 05/14/2004 07:36 AM
SpaceShipOne reaches 64km

Private 'police' confuse public

Private 'police' confuse public 04/27/2004 08:13 PM
Local policing is becoming fragmented by the growth of private security patrols because of demands from residents for more bobbies on the beat.

Scaled Composites Plans First Private
Space Shot

Scaled Composites Plans First Private
Space Shot 06/02/2004 01:36 PM

Scaled Composites, the X-Prize competitor funded by Microsoft mogul Paul Allen, and led by aviation uber-genius Burt Rutan, has scheduled a test flight that, if successful, will be the first space launch in history by the private sector.

SpaceShipOne will rocket to 100 kilometers (62 miles) into sub-orbital space above the Mojave Civilian Aerospace Test Center, a commercial airport in the California desert. If successful, it will demonstrate that the space frontier is finally open to private enterprise. This event could be the breakthrough that will enable space access for future generations.

This flight won't qualify for the X-Prize since the prize stipulates that you have to take 3 people to space, instead of just one. It is likely, however, a preliminary flight to get ready for a shot at the prize, and the precursor to commercial space travel. One of the reasons that the Mojave Airport is on its way to being licensed by the FTC as the world's first commercial spaceport. We have spaceports now! My jet-pack and flying car must not be far behind!

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Private Team Sends Manned Craft to Space

Private Team Sends Manned Craft to Space 06/22/2004 12:53 AM
A veteran civilian test pilot on Monday became the first human to reach space in a privately developed program.

Private space travel can blend
technologies for the benefit of all

Private space travel can blend
technologies for the benefit of all 06/23/2004 06:14 AM
SiliconValley.com Jun 23 2004 10:04AM GMT

How Portable Music Lets Us Reclaim Our
Private Space

How Portable Music Lets Us Reclaim Our
Private Space 03/08/2004 11:04 PM
The walkman has been around for decades now, and finally, someone has gotten around to studying the social impact of personal music players. He suggests that, with so many visual messages being targeted at us every day as we walk around, personal music players allow people to reclaim their personal space by putting their own soundtrack on it, and letting it match their own preferences and mood, while also blocking out certain elements of the outside.

CNN.com - Private craft soars into
space, history - Jun 21, 2004

CNN.com - Private craft soars into
space, history - Jun 21, 2004 06/22/2004 08:57 AM

Private Moments in the Public Eye (Los
Angeles Times)

Private Moments in the Public Eye (Los
Angeles Times) 08/05/2004 05:30 AM
Los Angeles Times - A full year had passed and it was time for a final visit to the Muslims of Las Vegas. April to April, spring to spring, the world had coughed up one arresting image after another, from the fire-streaked thunderclouds of shock and awe to the charred body parts of Americans dangling from a bridge in Iraq.

The Private Ambition of a Very Public
Man (Los Angeles Times)

The Private Ambition of a Very Public
Man (Los Angeles Times) 07/25/2004 05:38 AM
Los Angeles Times - From his boarding school days to the grind of the campaign trail, John F. Kerry has worn his ambition like a badge — almost always on display, yet rarely acknowledged. Over the course of a carefully crafted public life brimming with accomplishment and wrenched by war and loss, he has discreetly kept his distant prize, the presidency, in clear sight.

Editorial 01/20: Public-private team
works for U of M

Editorial 01/20: Public-private team
works for U of M 01/20/2003 04:24 AM
AS THE response to the typical Internet inquiry now comes faster than you can say "Google it," the University of Memphis and its new FedEx Technology Institute ...

E-TEN programme approves 37.5M for
public-private e-gov initiatives

E-TEN programme approves 37.5M for
public-private e-gov initiatives 03/06/2004 01:50 AM
DMeurope.com Mar 5 2004 5:57PM GMT

Private Team, in a Milestone, Sends
Manned Craft to Space

Private Team, in a Milestone, Sends
Manned Craft to Space 06/21/2004 10:10 PM
A veteran civilian test pilot on Monday became the first human to reach space in a privately developed program.
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