$900,000 winner in Space Elevator Games

Nov 7th, 2009 - Boston

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LOS ANGELES—A Seattle team has won $900,000 in a competition aimed at developing technology based on the science fiction concept of a space elevator.

The team earned the money by sending its laser-powered robot thousands of feet up a cable slung from a helicopter

LaserMotive LLC was presented the check Friday at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in the Mojave Desert after two other competitors in the three-day competition were unable to complete the climb of more than 2,950 feet.

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