{"id":182833,"date":"2024-02-16T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/are-space-elevators-possible-physicist-says-they-could-transform-humanity-into-a-spacefaring-civilization"},"modified":"2024-02-16T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:30:09","slug":"are-space-elevators-possible-physicist-says-they-could-transform-humanity-into-a-spacefaring-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/are-space-elevators-possible-physicist-says-they-could-transform-humanity-into-a-spacefaring-civilization","title":{"rendered":"Are Space Elevators possible? Physicist says they could Transform Humanity into a \u2018Spacefaring Civilization\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-space-elevators-possible-physicist-says-they-could-transform-humanity-into-a-spacefaring-civilization2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity\u2019s quest to explore\u2014and, perhaps eventually, colonize\u2014outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it.<\/p>\n<p>While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via rockets is the best way to send human beings into orbit, other \u201cnon-rocket\u201d methods have been proposed, including a futuristic \u201cspace elevator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concept of a space elevator\u2014essentially a sky-high cable that would let humans climb into space\u2014has been championed by some industry experts as a way to overcome the astronomical costs associated with sending people and cargo into space by rocket, says Alberto de la Torre, assistant professor of physics at Northeastern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity\u2019s quest to explore\u2014and, perhaps eventually, colonize\u2014outer space has prompted a great many ideas about how precisely to go about it. While conventional wisdom suggests that space launch via rockets is the best way to send human beings into orbit, other \u201cnon-rocket\u201d methods have been proposed, including a futuristic \u201cspace elevator.\u201d The concept of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}