Seattle Team Robot Wins Space Elevator Challenge
Arthur C. Clarke brought this idea to the forefront in his 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise", but the idea dates back to 1895 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed “a free-standing tower reaching from the surface of Earth to geostationary orbit.” Over the years, the idea has gone from impossible to a competition to build a…
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