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A Space elevator is a proposed method of launching a space craft from Earth's surface into orbit. The concept was first conceived in 1895 by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Speculations about Earth and Sky and on Vesta and has since appeared in several fictional works, particularly novels by Arthur C. Clarke
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