Phase 2 is unlocked immediately after completing Phase 1, and Tiers 3 and 4 will also be unlocked at the same time. To complete Phase 2, you'll need to deliver the following items to the Space ...

Edit: Beaten to the punch of course. There should be a name for the time it takes an Arsian to post a relevant XKCD. Never saw it. I assume the second character bit it too, and didn’t end up in ...

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year.

A space elevator capable of shuttling robots or humans from the Earth to space remains decades away. But a company headed by a former NASA researcher says it can build a space elevator on the moon ...

A space elevator on Earth or the moon could make space travel and cargo transport easier, cheaper, and more sustainable.; Companies in China and Japan hope to build such elevators by 2045 and 2050 ...

Loving an Elevator. The Space Elevator has been a dream of scientists for centuries. A new design may finally make it a reality — at least, by the next century.

Is the space elevator at our floor yet? Or is it? The dream of a rope that pulls us into space has been alive for more than 100 years. A new company says it’s close to making it work, ...

Web 2.0 is all fine and dandy and ... they and the rest of the new web apps combined and taken to the tenth power aren’t even half as sexy as the Space Elevator. The what? Business 2.0’s ...

This week's fifth annual Space Elevator Conference, sponsored by Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), is bringing a host of academics, space enthusiasts and small business owners to Redmond, Wash., to ...

A space elevator becomes a bridge to the entire solar system. Release a payload in the lower portion, and you orbit Earth, but do so in the upper portion, and you orbit the sun; all without fuel.

Rocketing into space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go.