Lockheed Martin / megaYuri / Odysseus Technologies / GM / Cincinnati’s Smart Materials Nanotechnology Laboratory / The Space Elevator Visualization Group / Microsoft / General Nano / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
Japan / United States / /
Currency
USD / / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Natural Disaster / /
Facility
Space Transportation System / Eiffel Tower / Tsinghua University / Worcester Polytechnic Institute / Microsoft’s headquarters / NASA’s Institute / North Carolina State University / Rice University / University of Cincinnati / /
IndustryTerm
chemical rocket technology / Steel wire / equivalent device / metal particle / rotational energy / energy / defence giant / electricity / carbon-nanotube manufacturer / umbrella / chemical / linked network / steel / /
NaturalFeature
Mojave desert / Pacific Ocean / /
Organization
Space Technology Roadmap / pentagon / Tsinghua University in Beijing / Rice University / Spaceward Foundation / Congress / University of Cincinnati / Worcester Polytechnic Institute / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts / North Carolina State University / Japan Space Elevator Association / /
Person
Arthur C Clarke / Shuichi Ohno / Henry David Thoreau / Padmanabhan Aravind / David Appell / Ben Shelef / Jerome Pearson / Boris Yakobson / Richard Smalley / Kim Stanley Robinson / Yuri Artsutanov / Konstantin Tsiolkovsky / Miriam Maslo / Mark Haase / Bradley Edwards / Victor Gollancz / /
Position
spaceelevator climber / PhD supervisor / rocket scientist / aeronautical engineer and co-founder and chief executive / kg robotic climber / physicist / sci-fi writer / chairman / independent science journalist / climber / physicist in the US / Los Alamos physicist / /
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