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Table of contents: abstract, background, needs assessment, problem definition. 11: development timeline and cost estimates, project timeline, summary. This report outlines the benefits and the problems that will be solved by building the space elevator. The main objective of the space elevator is to provide an effective low cost solution to raise payloads and people into space. The elevator will be assembled during one space launch. The whole project will be complete under ten years. This includes building all the parts and assembling it. Sending a specific load into space is highly expensive, takes a lot of planning and preparation. The space elevator will significantly decrease the cost and the preparation time for a space launch. More frequent lifts will increase the commercial and private space travel, enabling space tourism for a reasonable price. With the space elevator, to lift a kilogram into space can cost as low as (ambrosiano).
