Other Resources
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There are several other resources available if you want to learn more about the Space Elevator.
Space Elevator Pop-Tech Books
- Space Elevator Systems Architecture, Peter Swan, Cathy Swan, Lulu Publishing, 2007. Buy
- Leaving the Planet by Space Elevator, Bradley C. Edwards and Philip Ragan, Lulu Publishing, 2006 Buy
- Liftport - The Space Elevator: Opening Space for Everyone, Bill Fawcett, Michael Laine, Tom Nugent, Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc. 2006. Buy
- Advanced Space System Concepts and Technologies, 2010 - 2030, Ivan Beckey. The Aerospace Press, 2003 Buy
- Running the Line, Stories of the Space Elevator., Bradley Edwards, David Raitt, editors. Lulu Publishing 2006. Buy
- Space Elevators: An Advanced Earth-space Infrastructure for the New Millennium NASA and D. V., Jr. Smitherman, University Press of the Pacific, 2006, Buy
- The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System Bradley C. Edwards, Eric A. Westling, 2003 Buy
- Space Tethers and Space Elevators Michel van Pelt, Springer 2009 Buy
- Search Amazon for Space Elevator
Space Elevator Material on the Web
- Wikipedia overview article.
- How stuff works also has a nice video to go with.
- Spaceward's Space Elevator gentle introduction and publications.
- Brad Edwards' NIAC Report [pdf]
- Athur C. Clarke: A Thought Experiment or the Key to the Universe?
- Jerome Pearson's Space Elevator Pages and Space Elevator History
- Yuri Artsutanov's (translated into English) original SE proposal [pdf]
Works of Fiction
- Jack and the Beanstalk - an 1800's tale of horror! "'Fa, fe, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman"...
- The Fountains of Paradise, by Sir Arthur C. Clarke [Amazon]
- The Web Between the Worlds, by Charles Sheffield [Amazon]
- Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson, a 'chromology' of mars colonization. [Amazon Amazon Amazon]
- Star Trek Episode
