Episode 5 Space Elevator: How many floors to the moon? - BIIRS Season 1

How you ever wondered if traditional rockets were the only way to get to space? Can't we just build an elevator to the moon? What if I told you that wasn't destined to live only in science fiction? The future of space travel is evolving faster than we realize! Music from https://filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Sources: Non-Equatorial Space Elevators. [Online]. Available: http://gassend.net/spaceelevator/non-equatorial/index.html. “Why do I want a Space Elevator?,” International Space Elevator Consortium. [Online]. Available: https://isec.org/why-do-i-want-a-space-elevator/. “Space elevators in fiction,” Wikipedia, 07-Oct-2019. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevators_in_fiction. L. Zhu, J. Wang, and F. Ding, “The Great Reduction of a Carbon Nanotube’s Mechanical Performance by a Few Topological Defects,” ACS Nano, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 6410–6415, Jul. 2016. Z. PeterkinAug, “Space Elevator Technology and Graphene,” AZoM.com, 02-Oct-2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16371. D. Basile and D. Basile, “Op-ed: Graphene goes galactic,” SpaceNews.com, 10-Jul-2019. [Online]. Available: https://spacenews.com/op-ed-graphene-goes-galactic/. J. F. Silveira and A. R. Muniz, “Diamond nanothread-based 2D and 3D materials: Diamond nanomeshes and nanofoams,” Carbon, vol. 139, pp. 789–800, 2018. “Space Elevator – Science Fiction or the Future of Mankind?,” YouTube. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPQQwqGWktE. Papers from International Space Elevator Consortium: M. Fitzgereald, V. Hall, P. Swan, and C. Swan, “Design Considerations of a Space Elevator Apex Anchor and GEO Node,” International Space Elevator Consortium, May 2017. V. Hall, P. N. Glaskowsky, and S. Schaeffer, “Design considerations of the Space Elevator Earth Port,” International Space Elevator Consortium, Mar. 2016.

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