“Ziplines played a pivotal role in the democratization of space.”
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Even though the price of spaceflight has fallen dramatically in the 2030s, the environmental and economic costs of using chemical rockets to escape Earth’s gravity have prevented humans from reaching the moon and beyond. Ta. There was also widespread anger that space exploration is becoming the exclusive preserve of the ultra-rich, and calls for democratization of access to space have grown.
A centuries-old dream has been to build a space elevator that would take us from Earth to space without rockets. But how…
