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22.09.2002

Seattle-based High Lift Systems has received $0,5 million from NASA to study the possibility of building an elevator to reach space.

It is supposed to be a very long tether, with one end attached to an ocean platform and the other to a satellite in Earth orbit. Both people and goods will mechanically rise into space along this elevator. The appearance of the first elevator into space at NASA is expected in about 50 years.

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