Are Space Elevators Possible?

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Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
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[1] http://m-newton.ex.ac.uk/research/qsy...
[2] http://images.spaceref.com/docs/space...
[3] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d402...
[4] https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/kant...
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