Whilst the worth of house flight got here down dramatically within the 2030s, the environmental and monetary value of utilizing chemical rockets to flee Earth’s gravity held again human enlargement to the moon and past. There was additionally widespread anger that house exploration was changing into a protect of the ultra-rich, resulting in a want for entry to house to be democratised.
A dream, for hundreds of years, had been to construct an area elevator to take us from Earth into house with out utilizing rockets. However how…