After nine years of great space elevator content, Ted Semon has retired.  But don’t worry, the blog will be back up again soon. Going forward, the International Space Elevator Consortium (http://www.isec.org) will be maintaining the site and publishing entries.  Stay tuned!

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Today marks nine full years that I’ve been hosting and authoring the Space Elevator Blog and I’m going to call it quits, at least for the time being.  I have several other projects on my plate and I’m not getting any younger… Being a part of the effort to promote the idea of a space elevator over the past nine years has been fun and interesting and...

TwistedMojo has a new episode out in the Lonely Astronaut series and it has a space elevator! If you’re not familiar with the series, an Astronaut is stranded on the moon and somehow survives several decades.  There are rescue attempts, Sexual Harassment training, hallucinations, etc. – but all funny (if you have a warped sense of humor like I do). The...

The folks creating Shoot the Moon – a story about Liftport‘s effort to build a space elevator – have posted another update for their Kickstarter funded project. Hey, everyone! Since our last update, we’ve converged on the Seattle area for a month of shooting. This week alone has been packed with activity. Here’s a quick recap: Our storyboards our in!...

Welcome to this edition of Weekend Walkabout.  In this post, we visit India Thailand to see a ‘possible competitor’ to a space elevator, then journey to Japan to see the latest with our favorite anime series, Gundam, and then wind up in what can only be described as “Fantasy Land”.  There’s also a programming note concerning this blog and Facebook. ...