On March 18th, 1965, Soviet Cosmonaut Alexsei Leonov became the first human to ‘walk’ in space.  What does this have to do with the Space Elevator?  Lots… A current scenario for building a space elevator is to lift it’s 80 ton (initial weight) into Low Earth orbit via four Shuttle launches.  Once it’s there, it’s going to … Continue reading 43 years ago today…