Clarke talked about building a space elevator back in the 1970s.
在20世纪70年代，卡拉克就谈论过建造太空电梯。
A space elevator would be cheaper.
太空电梯会更便宜。
Scientists hope to build the space elevator by 2050.
科学家们希望在2050年之前建造太空电梯。
A space elevator could make it easier to go into space.
太空电梯可以让人们更容易进入太空。
There's nothing at all wrong with puzzling out how a space elevator could get built.
苦苦思索如何建成太空升降机梯其实是完全无可厚非的。
One reason NASA supports power beaming is that it hopes the technology could be used to help run a space elevator.
美国航天局力挺能源传送的一个原因是它希望这项技术能够用于空间升降舱的运作。
Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themselves to cracking the greatest sci-fi vision of all: the space elevator.
如今，日本最伟大的科学家们正在致力于一项最伟大的科幻愿景：太空梯。
Clarke's another novel, the Fountains of Paradise, helped spark the real-world efforts to build a space elevator from Earth to orbit.
克拉克的另一篇小说《天堂的喷泉》，激发了人们在地球和地球轨道之间建造空间电梯的想法。
I thought after a few decades of rockets they would come up with a space elevator or another way of getting into orbit, cheaper and safer.
我想发射几十年的火箭后，他们会造出太空扶梯，或是其他进入轨道的方法，更便宜，更安全。
"Just like travelling abroad, anyone will be able to ride the elevator into space," Shuichi Ono, chairman of the Japan space elevator Association, said.
日本太空梯协会会长大野修一(音译)表示：“就像出国旅行一样，将来任何人都可以乘电梯去太空旅行。”
If you're not familiar with the space elevator, perhaps you've heard it referred to by one of its other names: the bean stalk, the orbital tether, the nonsynchronous orbital skyhook.
如果你对太空升降梯这个名词并不熟悉，那么你或许曾经听过它的一些别名：豆茎，轨道缆索，还是非同步轨道天钩。
This is the fourth annual Space Elevator Games.
太空电梯大赛已经连续举办了四年。
A robot designed by KC Space Robots climbs a cable extended from a helicopter during the Space Elevator Games at NASA Dryden Flight Research Centre in California.
在太空电梯竞赛中，由KC空间机器人公司设计的机器人正沿着直升机上垂下的一根览绳向上爬升。
The central idea behind a Space Elevator involves lowering a cable — perhaps constructed from asteroid material — from geostationary Earth orbit to the surface of the Earth.
太空升降机背后的核心理念包括降下一根电缆——也许是由小行星材料制成的，——从对地静止轨道到地球表面。
The central idea behind a Space Elevator involves lowering a cable — perhaps constructed from asteroid material — from geostationary Earth orbit to the surface of the Earth.
太空升降机背后的核心理念包括降下一根电缆——也许是由小行星材料制成的，——从对地静止轨道到地球表面。
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