The Space Elevator is probably the most exciting, ambitious, and inspirational space access project on the drawing boards today. If built, it will completely change the future course of the human race, as it will allow our civilization to effortly expand into the solar system.
Our flagship project, Elevator:2010 is a 5-year $4,000,000 technology prize competition designed to foster the core technologies necessary to design and build the Space Elevator, while serving as an educational tool to bring the concept to school children and the general public.
Comprized of the Power Beaming and Strong Tether competitions, the challenge is conducted in partnership with NASA's Centennial Challenges program. Now in our third year, we're thrilled to report that we are well on our way to meeting our goal of demonstrating the core technologies of the Space Elevator by the year 2010.
The Light Racers project is a wide-ranging educational program that teaches planetary science, physics, math, and engineering concepts, in a fun and challenging environment that rewards innovation and originality. The project is open to school, familiy and grown-up teams.
The possible presence of water in the permanently shadowed craters of the Lunar poles is the best opportunity we have of using local resources on the surface of the Moon. Join us as we explore the use of light beams to power Lunar rovers in these ancient and dark recesses of our nearest solar neighbor.
If the moon is a rocky lifeless island near the shore, Mars is the promising coastline of a new continent. Base on what we know of Mars today, it is by far the most important location in the Solar system to explore.
Our newly announced Mars Robotic Construction challenge focuses on robotic assembly of large structures on remote planets such as Mars.
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