Backers Propose X-Prize Style Contest To Develop Space
Elevator
Going up?
Taking its lead from the successful Ansari X-Prize, folks who'd
very much like to see an elevator extended as high as 62,000 miles
plan a little competition of their own. It's called "Elevator:
2010" and its designed to provoke interest and generate prototypes
of a technology that could revolutionize the commercialization of
space.