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Stuff You Should Know

Can we build an elevator to space?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2012

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With the end of the shuttle program and an International Space Station still in need of supplies, the aerospace industry is working the kinks of out of a century-old idea to build a service elevator from Earth to outer space.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.4

Brought to you by the reinvented 2012 camera.

0:33.3

It's ready for you.

0:35.8

Welcome to Steffi Shed No, from House Stuff Works.com.

0:45.7

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:47.2

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and that makes this Steffi Shedness.

0:51.9

So did you hear Steve Dogg's son got a football scholarship to I think, ECL?

0:59.5

Yeah, so did Peter Deese.

1:02.0

No way.

1:02.7

Yeah and actually Sean Cones was the first to happen.

1:06.3

It was about a month ago and a lot of people got upset because they were like we shouldn't

1:12.5

be paying for this multi-millionaire son to go to college.

1:17.1

I should see that.

1:18.2

But it was all explained.

1:22.3

Sports guys came out and really defended it.

1:24.3

It's not you paying for it.

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