A space elevator? It’s not exactly that ... A vehicle with massive storage space, called a climber, would then scale the ...

but space elevators, long a staple of science fiction, promise an innovative way to overcome it. A long cable anchored to Earth at the equator would help move people, supplies, and vehicles into ...

Hughes' design would use a extremely long cable tethering an asteroid trapped in geosynchronous orbit that would connect to a floating platform on Earth. Once the space elevator is constructed ...