Edwards sees it far differently: $8 billion to build the first elevator. “That’s about the same cost as two launches of the Boeing SLS Rockets, which were $4 billion each,” the physicist says.

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It isn’t, of course, until entities invest. But for the first time in nearly 150 years, the space elevator is out of the realm of sci-fi and into the orbit of mission possible.