Company Plans To Build Space

**U-T** · 04-27-2005, 02:26 PM

http://cbs2.com/water/watercooler_story_116173449.html

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[b]BREMERTON, WA (AP) A company in Washington State wants to send an elevator into space.

The LiftPort company says it will open a plant this summer in Millville, New Jersey, to start producing nanotube fibers, which are 60-times stronger than steel.

The company plans to create an eight-inch wide ribbon that would stretch from an ocean platform 62-thousand miles into space.

A robotic elevator would crawl up and down the elevator to carry satellites and eventually people into orbit.

The city of Millville and a county development project provided 100-thousand dollars to build the plant, which will have six employees. The three-year-old company, which has nine employees in Bremerton, Washington, also plans to sell nanotubes fibers to strengthen glass and plastic products.

**UTVOLFAN** · 04-27-2005, 03:03 PM

i read about that in Maxim..

**orangetd88** · 04-27-2005, 03:37 PM

That's gonna be one helluva elevator.

**U-T** · 04-27-2005, 04:34 PM

I keep thinking of the ladder to heaven South Park eposide

Jefw · 04-27-2005, 04:51 PM

So many things are wrong about this plan. I would think the FAA would be against it. Nothing like flying into a pole at 30,000 ft.

**OWB** · 04-27-2005, 06:14 PM

I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem like there would be a lot to do in space except float around and floating is very overrated..

**LadyinOrange** · 04-27-2005, 07:03 PM

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Originally posted by Orangewhiteblood@Apr 27, 2005 6:14 PM
[b] I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem like there would be a lot to do in space except float around and floating is very overrated..