Brad Edwards

SPACE ELEVATOR

Although his career has put him on the cutting edge of more than one new technology, today Dr. Bradley Edwards is known best for his designs for the first viable space elevator, a cable 100,000 kilometers long stretching from Earth to space that can be ascended by climbers – a vertical railroad with some of the same potential to change our world as the railroads of ancestors.  Dr. Edwards’ books on the construction of a space elevator are the cornerstone for conferences, research around the world and efforts to build the first space elevator.

This technology may take man to other planets and stars, bring us limitless clean energy and will undoubtedly fuel the imagination of generations to come. There are challenges, however. To address them, Dr. Edwards has co-founded Plasma X, a company pushing the production and application of carbon nanotubes. These nanotubes are molecules of incredible potential – hundreds of times stronger than steel and much stronger than any other materials. These are the key to not only the space elevator but so much more.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Bradley Edwards received his Ph.D. in physics in 1990 and immediately went to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Leading development on space missions to our Moon and Jupiter’s moon, Europa, as well as being co-investigator on astrophysical satellite missions, Dr. Edwards quickly started pushing the limits of technology. His drive and ability to develop new technology first showed as he built the world’s first optical cryocooler – hitting a piece of glass with a very high-power laser and watching it freeze.

From the moons of Jupiter to nanotechnology pushing tomorrow’s technology for space for oceanography, Dr. Edwards is an internationally recognized physicist, leader and visionary with an extraordinary record of accomplishment.