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Researchers are planning to create cable car in space. Twenty tons of cable would need to be taken up to into space to get the project started. Space cable cars could also be established on planets like Mars.

For a space cable car to function, a cable with one end attached to the Earth?s surface would stretch upward over 200 miles. Once in place, passengers could ride an electromagnetic cable car into outer space. NASA Engineers are also looking into magnetic levitation, air breathing rockets, laser propulsion and lunar transfer vehicles.
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The 22-year-old rock star Lance Bass of the group ?Nsync plans to take a ride on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the international Alpha station. California millionaire Dennis Tito became the world?s first space tourist in April 2001 after paying $20 million for a seat aboard a Russian rocket to the international space station. South African Internet tycoon Mark Shuttlesworth is due to fly in April.
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