Can We Build an Elevator to Space?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2013

⏱️ 33 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.

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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.
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0:31.3	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
0:41.2	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and that makes this stuff you should
0:47.0	miss.
0:48.0	Oh.
0:49.0	Did you hear Steve Dog's son got a football scholarship to I think ECL?
0:55.1	Yeah so did Peter Dees.
0:57.5	No way.
0:58.5	Yeah and actually Sean Cones was the first to happen.
1:01.8	It was about a month ago and a lot of people got upset because they were like we shouldn't
1:08.0	be paying for this millionaire, multi-millionaire son to go to college.
1:12.6	I should see that.
1:13.8	But it was all explained.
1:15.5	Sports guys came out and really defended it, it's not you paying for it.
1:19.5	It's athletic scholarships that are earned by athletes and it's a step-raster club.
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