NOVA Science Now | Space Elevator

Format / source: Streaming Video
Length/size: 11 mins

Comments: Can we build a 22,000-mile-high cable to transport cargo and people into space? Physicist and space-elevator visionary Brad Edwards describes the many benefits we'd enjoy. In this video extra, see a prototype of technology that may one day take us to space.

Robert Krulwich hosts this segment of NOVA Science Now, a magazine-style PBS program produced by WGBH.