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Cape Argus | November 08, 2009

LOS ANGELES: A Seattle team has won $900 000 (R6.7 million) in a Nasa-backed competition to develop an elevator to space, an idea spurred by science fiction novels. The team's robotic machine raced up more than 900m of cable dangling from a helicopter. Powered by a laser pointed at the robot's photo...

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