Daily Archives: August 22, 2007

“Elevator reaches for the stars”

In today’s edition of the Edmonton Journal, Keith Gerein writes about the University of Alberta’s entry into this year’s Space Elevator Games.  Money quote from team member Chris Ryziuk in discussing their limited budget:

“We can’t buy our way to victory, but a good design goes a long way.”

This is the first article I’ve seen on this team – good to know that they’re active.  They won’t reveal their Climber’s power source so I guess we’ll just have to wait.  You can check out their team website here.

(Photo credit: John Lucas from the Journal.  Click on it or view the article for a larger version)

“Is the Final Frontier Just One Ride Away On a Space Elevator?”

If you are a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal online, you can view today’s article on the Space Elevator by Lee Gomes.  I’m not a subscriber, so won’t be able to view it.  But I’m bummed – I spent a lot of time on the phone with Lee while he was preparing this article – wish I could read it  Oh well.

If anyone is a subscriber, please let me know how the article was 🙂

Update August 27th – This article is now freely available here – thanks to Brian Dunbar at LiftPort for pointing this out.