[saganite]

These are private industry programs as far as I know and if NASA contributes anything it's seed money. These kinds of technologies need to be explored or we're just going to be driving around in the space version of the Model T for the next few hundred years.

[airborne]

It's just my opinion, and I'm no rocket scientist, but I believe that NASA pursuing the space elevator will end up with the same results as NASA building the space shuttle.

An unproductive waste of time and resources.