View ROALD DAHL Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, original artwork mock-up design for the covers, c.1972-73 together with an original illustration of the Oompa Loompas, pen and ink with white, ...

An illustration of a space elevator. NASA/MSFC By some estimates, a well-designed elevator would cut the cost of cargo transportation to as low as $100 per kilogram.

A space elevator untethered to Earth, with both of its ends hanging in space, might cut the costs of space travel to high orbit by 40 percent, researchers report in a new Acta Astronautica study.

In a study published Aug. 25 on the online research archive arXiv, the students contend that it’s technologically and financially feasible to build such a "lunar space elevator," which was first ...

Tony Sciallia is one of New York’s last manual elevator operators, and the human heartbeat of 863 Park Ave., a historic prewar co-op on the Upper East Side.