Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure

We’ll review “Space Elevators” in general - history, fact and fiction. Then we’ll take a deep dive into LiftPort’s role in its decade of development. Finally, we’ll recap the whirlwind of activity since last year’s BIL - Kickstarter, Imperial Palace in Vienna, CCP Games + Reykjavik Iceland, and Caribbean University in Puerto Rico. (And maybe an additional surprise… fingers crossed!) This will be a multi-media ‘conversation’, not a ‘lecture’; driven by audience questions.

Michael Laine is building an Elevator on the Moon… Do I really need more of a bio than that for BIL…

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O.k. here’ goes: Former US Marine, Investment Adviser, Dot-Commer and real estate entrepreneur. Laine started working under a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts research project in 2001 - to examine the possibility of building an Elevator to Space. His team has built 15 robots that climb into the sky on Ribbons held aloft by balloons, and created one of the early pioneers in carbon nanotube research. Recently, the team has focused on the construction of a Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure.

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