And it was. Now, 30 years after "2001" author Arthur C. Clarke wrote about an elevator that rises into outer space, serious research is happening all over the world in an effort to make the far ...

The London Times is running this article where Sir Arthur amusingly revises his orginal projection on when they’ll stop laughing about building the Space Elevator. “As its most enthusiastic ...

The transporter in this artwork is called the Clarke Clipper, after the British science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote about space elevators in his novel The Fountains of Paradise.

With his 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise," science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke introduced the idea of space elevators to the mainstream scientific community and the general public.

Theorized in the 1960s and then popularized by Arthur C. Clarke's 1979 novel "The Fountains of Paradise," space elevators are envisioned as a way to gain access to space without the risk and ...

Arthur C. Clarke was once asked this question and came up with the answer: “The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing”. They just stopped.

Arthur C. Clarke described an impossibly tall tower that would ferry humans from the Earth’s surface into orbit. Nearly forty years later, space elevators still have the ring of science fiction.

One of the concept's biggest advocates was the late science-fiction guru Arthur C. Clarke, who once said the first space elevator would be built "about 50 years after everyone stops laughing." ...

In the 1970s, similar ideas were floated in science fiction (Arthur C. Clarke’s The Fountains ... Dangling the space elevator at this height would eliminate the need to place a large ...

And it was. Now, 30 years after "2001" author Arthur C. Clarke wrote about an elevator that rises into outer space, serious research is happening all over the world in an effort to make the far ...