The Space Elevator

By Mr. Science Guy

Not so far into the future, an ambitious project virtually impossible with present technology to make frequent space travel easier by far… the space elevator. A project that used to be only dream within man’s imagination is now seen not only as possible, but with future’s better technology, not too complex and very useful, so it will almost impossible to not think that it will definitely be built.
The elevator will start as a satellite in space in a geostationary orbit over land. A geostationary orbit is acquired by staying directly above one part of the equator and orbiting at the speed of one orbit per day, in other words, the satellite will always above one point of the earth. Then two things would be extended in opposite directions. One is the actual elevator, extended towards the earth. The other is a weight exactly the same weight and length as the elevator to keep the balance. The weight uses up a lot of material and it doesn’t serve any particular use besides keeping the balance, but it’s necessary. Once the bottom of the elevator is firmly attached to the ground, it’s ready to use.
The elevators are airtight. They are sealed on the ground once ready and no air should leak out. The middle part acts like a space station and a forward base. Once inside the middle part, astronauts can do experiments with zero gravity and vacuums just like they’d do in a space station, and spacecrafts and space probes, with or without humans inside, can take off from the middle part. That gets rid of the need to waste all the fuel and money to be launched in a rocket out of the atmosphere. The space elevator will be a very convenient and cheap way to go to space in the future, and it’s definitely a project worth doing.