Journey to the space!!!!

Have you ever thought about the elevator that can carry you to the edge of space.

According to the scientist at York University in Toronto, a huge inflatable tower can take you to the edge of space without any rocket, cable-based elevator.

If it could be built from a stable mountain it could reach an altitude of approximate 20 KM, from where it could be used for different purposes like tourism, telecoms etc. They are assembling the structure from different modules that are constructed from Kevelar-polyethylene composite tubes and made them rigid by inflating with a gas like helium because helium is very lightweight.

To test this complete process, they prepare a 7-metre scale model made up of six modules. Out of these six modules each module is built of three laminated polyethylene tube eight CM in diameter and mounted around circular spacers and inflated with air.

To make it more stabilize, they modelled a 15 KM tower that is made up of 100 modules. Each module is 150 metres tall and about 230 meters in diameter. Scientist Quine estimated that it would weight about 800,000 tonnes. According to Quine, tourists can take a view as same as the view from space without zero gravity. According to him it could be extended up to lower earth orbit that is till 200 KM.