Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures by Joey Eschrich & Ed Finn

Author:Joey Eschrich & Ed Finn [Eschrich, Joey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

Acknowledgments: Exploration of Mars would not be possible without the efforts of countless engineers, scientists, administrators, and staff at NASA and its academic and industrial partners. Together we are privileged to do so thanks to the commitment of the public and its representatives.

[1] Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine Books, 2013): 137. First published in 1980. [back]

Section III: Asteroids

Back in the socket, on the other side of the cable, upbound elevator cars were being loaded with refined metals, platinum, gold, uranium, and silver. Then the cars swung in and locked onto the piste, and up they rose again, accelerating slowly to their full speed of 300 kilometers an hour. Five days later they arrived at the top of the cable, and decelerated into locks inside the ballast asteroid Clarke, now a much-tunneled chunk of carbonaceous chondrite, so filigreed with exterior buildings and interior chambers that it seemed more a spaceship or a city than Mars’s third moon. It was a busy place; there was a continuous procession of incoming and outgoing ships, and crews perpetually in transit, as well as a large force of local traffic controllers, using some of the most powerful AIs in existence. Though most of the operations involving the cable were computer controlled and robotically accomplished, entire human professions were springing up to direct and oversee all these efforts.

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