Rare Jerome Pearson Video Speaking on the Space Elevator Concept 
While Sir Arthur C. Clarke popularized the concept of the Space Elevator, it was Jerome Pearson and Yuri Artsutanov who did the original engineering, separately, on the concept originally put forward by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
New Space Elevator Interview Released with Michael Laine of Liftport
Video: Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure Overview
New Book - Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward
Recently released is a new book titled "Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward". The book is the result of a study conducted under the auspices of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) with 41 contributors. The major conclusion from the four-year study was that the concept of space elevators seems feasible.
TEDx Talk: An Elevator to Space
2012 Space Elevator Conference Proceedings Available
Concept: Dirigible Space Elevator
A Dirigible Space Elevator, a unique combination of aerospace design and geodesic geometry, has many monetary, efficiency and energy saving uses. The geodesic exo-structure allows any airship the ability to fly upwards at speeds exceeding 150 mph. The reduced costs to get to space will improve everything with respect to technological R & D associated with space.
ISEC Releases Space Elevator Concept of Operations Report
The International Space Elevator Consortium has a released a 46 page report titled Space Elevator Concept of Operations. The report describes and discusses a plausible Operations scenario for a Space Elevator and also addresses initial commercial operations of a space elevator pair with robotic climbers.
2013 Space Elevator Conference Set for August in Seattle
The Economist Lunatic Space Elevator - Going to the Moon?
Annual Space Elevator Conference Set for August 25-27
The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) is once again holding its annual conference in Seattle and for the first time it will be held at the Museum of Flight. The 3-day conference opens on August 25th and has a theme of Operating and Maintaining a Space Elevator.
Conference events to include:
Obayashi and the Space Elevator - A Story of Hype
When the news broke a couple of days ago on the Yomiuri Online web site that the Obayashi Corporation would be building a Space Elevator by 2050 I was skeptical. Why? Well let's examine the original article. If you use Google's Chrome web browser you have the option of having the article translated. I did that. As well a little history of the company helped.
Obayashi is a huge global construction company and like other Japanese construction companies it projects its business plan with a very long term view. So every now and then they put forward some visionary construction project. It won't get built anytime soon, if ever, but maybe, just maybe someday it will. Unfortunately that's not the case here.
First Issue of the Space Elevator Journal Released
Ted Semon is reporting that the first issue of the Space Elevator Journal is available. It consists of eight peer-reviewed papers. The Journal will be sent out to all past and present members of the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC). It's not available just yet on the ISEC web site but will be soon.
Google X and the Space Elevator
From the New York Times comes a story on Google's X lab where top secret Google projects of the future are being researched. These are blue sky ideas that might some day pan out. One of the ideas being bandied about? The Space Elevator.
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