Imagine an electric-powered elevator that carries humans and cargo up a freestanding, inflatable structure 20 kilometres above the Earth's surface – to a platform used to launch space missions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A space elevator could make it much cheaper and faster to get goods to other planets, like Mars. The Obayashi Corporation based in ...

glass experience with a first of its kind elevator. Each Skyliner cab features floor-to-ceiling glass, engineered to withstand Seattle's rain and strong winds off of the Puget Sound. PC Space Needle.

Blasting off into space may never look the same if one Canadian company has its way. Thoth Technology of Pembroke, Ont., is developing a 20-kilometre-high free-standing space elevator that would allow ...

Gravity can be a grueling taskmaster. Anyone who’s walked up a dozen flights of stairs knows this. Getting into space is that much harder. It takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of thrust and over ...

It may be a while until we see a working space elevator. Google X, the search giant's lab responsible for "moonshot" projects like Google Glass, driverless cars, and Project Loon, has unsuccessfully ...

PEMBROKE, Ont. -- Blasting off into space may never look the same if one Canadian company has it's way. Thoth Technology of Pembroke, Ont., is developing a 20-kilometre-high free-standing space ...

PEMBROKE, Ont. -- Blasting off into space may never look the same if one Canadian company has its way. Thoth Technology of Pembroke, Ont., is developing a 20-kilometre-high free-standing space ...

Ben Quine teaches engineering, builds space hardware, oversees a telescope in the darkness of Algonquin Park — and is fascinating the world with an exotic concept for launching humans into space. In ...

The dream of space travel likely goes back to a couple of cavemen lying on the ground, shooting the breeze after a tough day, and gazing up at all those little objects we now call stars and planets ...