Getting to Space on a Thread.Space Elevator as Alternative Access to Space

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David Kent is the author of four Department Thirty thrillers. His acclaimed debut novel, "Department Thirty, " was also one of the bestselling eBooks of 2003; other novels in the series include "The Mesa Conspiracy, The Black Jack Conspiracy, " which won the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction and "The Triangle Conspiracy." He grew up in Madill, Oklahoma, and is a former press secretary and media adviser to several congressional candidates. Under his real name of Kent Anderson, he worked as a broadcaster for twenty-seven years, and is now in marketing with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra. He has three sons, and lives in Oklahoma City.

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