Mountain View, CA – The Spaceward Foundation in collaboration with NASA today announced a significant expansion of the Power Beaming and Tether Challenges. These two events are collectively known as ...

A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in Japan announced in 2012 plans to begin building one by next year. Not ...

Spaceward Foundation to hold the First Annual Space Elevator Competition October 21st, 2005 at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Spaceward Foundation will be hosting the first Space Elevator Competition at ...

ELEVATOR RACE: The nonprofit Spaceward Foundation of Mountain View, Calif., is collecting pledges to fund an X Prize-like competition intended to spur the development of space elevator technology, ...

The space elevator has been called a “stairway to the heavens,” but making one work comes with massive engineering challenges. In this video, I dive into the details - from counterweights to tethers ...

In late August, officials at NASA announced what had already become apparent: Two U.S. astronauts, stranded for nearly three months at the International Space Station, weren't coming home as planned ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine the challenges of building an elevator to space. Trump DOJ argues Michigan effort to shut down underwater pipeline interferes with US foreign policy Map ...

Honestly, it's really more of a stratosphere elevator than a "space" elevator, but a new space elevator concept from Canadian company Thoth Technology(Opens in a new window) has some in the space ...