Getting to Space on a Thread – Space Elevator as an Alternative Access to Space<\/a>” was a “Blue Horizons paper” written for the Center for Strategy and Technology for the Air War College.<\/p>\nMajor Kent presented a couple of papers at the 2008 Space Elevator Conference and I remember having some very interesting discussions with him during one of the lunches.<\/p>\n
Because a Space Elevator will allow such scalable, reliable (and relatively inexpensive) access to space, there is no question that it will be a very significant military asset to whoever controls it.\u00a0 There is a viewpoint that if the world cooperatively builds a Space Elevator, then, perhaps, we can make it a ‘universal good’, much like, say, the Internet is.\u00a0 Others (including me) are not so optimistic.<\/p>\n
Regardless, it is very interesting to see a military evaluation of the Space Elevator and the article is (IMHO) well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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While reviewing some of the older Space Elevator Conference programs and trying to see if some of the presenters were still active in the SE arena, I ran across this 2007 paper by Major Jason Kent.<\/p>\n