Tourist Module - MoComments. Also a comment on the space pen which NASA did not pay to develop

It won't. The space elevator is in tension, not compression. In
tension there are materials that, theoretically, should work. In
compression, not even theoretical materials can do the job.

On Saturday, June 8, 2002, at 03:06 AM, Ryan Healey wrote:

> Would the cable stay up at the poles? It depends on how strong it is,
> I'd say
> it probably wouldn't.

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html