What If We Built an Elevator to Space?

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Hold on tight, turn up the elevator music, and get ready for a whole new mode of space exploration!

Forget rocket launches! We already use elevators to bring us to extreme heights in our tallest buildings, so why can't they take us just a little further into space? But wait — how much would that cost? Do we even possess the technology to make that possible? And what would we gain from the whole endeavor?

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