it's hundreds of thousands of dollars per pound or more. Rockets are also very limited in the amount of payload they can carry, and they're risky. With a space elevator, the cost is a fraction of ...

the price of sending cargo into space didn't go down. "My cost per pound went up with these rockets," Margasahayam told Tech Insider. "On the shuttle, it would be much less." (Margasahayam spoke ...