“The [carbon nanotube] material is not just for space elevators, it has much broader applications. The NSF is just hot to trot on nanotechnology, so I think there’s definitely bucks out there.”
Donna Shirley, former head of NASA’s Mars exploration program, quoted in The Space Review
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