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Space elevators *are* cool and will likely work in the future... in the meantime...
They should launch the big freight via big booster rockets and launch the human components in something like SpaceShipOne... smaller, cheaper, etc. With some additional work it could be strong enough to act as a taxi for the ISS. I bet they could also build some sort freighter that never needs to leave orbit... it could link up with freight shot up by the boosters and ferry it to the ISS.
Seems to me it would be a lot cheaper.
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