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Polymath World # Episode 18 - Dr Peter Swan
SPACE ELEVATORS
Dr Peter Swan is the Chief Architect of the Space Elevator Consortium and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society. He has a PHD in engineering from UCLA where his thesis was on space tethers. He is a partner of Zodiac Planetary Services and has been advocating and leading research on the feasibility and execution of the space elevator concept for decades. An accomplished engineer, university lecturer and academic, he has published a phenomenal amount of research on easier access to orbit as well as the solar system and sits on the board of engineering and space science…
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