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Space Elevator Games Has A Winner
A team from Seattle has won a $900,000 prize for developing technology based on science fiction.
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LOS ANGELES (November 7, 2009)—A team from Seattle has won $900,000 in a competition aimed at developing technology based on the science fiction concept of a space elevator.
The team won the money by sending its laser-powered robot thousands of feet up a cable slung from a helicopter
LaserMotive LLC was presented the check Friday at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in the Mojave Desert after two other competitors in the three-day competition were unable to complete the climb of more than 2,950 feet.
The LaserMotive machine completed the climb in about three minutes and 48 seconds, good enough for second-place money.
The company could have won $2 million if its robot had finished in less than three minutes.
Theorists propose space elevators as an alternative way to reach orbit without using rockets.
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