Markus Landgraf is mission analyst at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt/Germany. His is always looking for technologies that will open new doors to space. In his talk he explains how to get to space via elevator.
Editor’s note: Hang in there, he switches to English in the first minute!

































![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)



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