Passenger lift to space one step closer?

Experts believe that an elevator to space and beyond could become a reality over the next few decades.

Members of the International Space Elevator Consortium are due to meet at the 2010 Space Elevator Conference in Washington to discuss the possibility of a passenger lift going to space.

The event, which is due to the held between 12 and 15 August, will see people travel from all over the world to discuss, among other things, the possibility of a passenger lift to the stars.

Such a prospect has undoubtedly been regarded with much excitement and anticipation and even the Conference website mentions the “Space Elevator” that could be made using a nanotube ribbon.

The idea is believed to have been first thought up of up Yuri Artsutanov in the 1960s as he saw the possibility of linking the earth to the rest of the planets in our galaxy by using lift cables and elevators.

Jerome Pearson also developed his own ideas on the matter and in 1975, while he was working at NASA he published his thoughts in The Orbital Tower; A Spacecraft Launcher using the Earth’s Rotational Energy.

Back in 2008, Japanese scientists announced that they were going to build a passenger lift that would take people up 62,000 miles to space.

As part of these plans, there will discussions that over 22,000 miles of lift cable would be needed. In addition, these cables would need to be attached to the earth and then used to disappear into the sky.

There has been constant interest in developing a lift to space for many years now and as a result, the American aviator regulators have recently launched a competition to find the first prototypes. The winner could be awarded up to £5.6 million as a prize.

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