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Lunar elevator ascending - Artist view

by

Walter B. Myers/Novapix

Reference

e-ill01-00030

Date

2012-11-07

A manned lunar space elevator ascends from the surface of the Moon riding a 35,000-mile-long tether anchored at the other end to a counterweight in a Lagrange point in space. In this image the elevator is approximately 3,000 miles above the lunar surface, having taken approximately 50 hours to reach this point.