[ExI] Skylon as first stage.

[Kelly Anderson]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> But you really need big lift capacity from the earth before you go
> after lunar materials.

As I understand it, we have the material science to build a space
elevator from the moon with current technology, where the space
elevator from earth has to be built with a stronger belt than we can
currently produce. That might serve as the basis for an argument to do
things from the moon first.

-Kelly