- NASA gives LaserMotive of Kent, WA $900,000 to build a miniature prototype of a space elevator (in comparison the Mercury project cost approximately $384 million, or about $2.8 billion in 2009 if you account for inflation) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/science/space/08nasa.html?ref=science 5 comments space
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