Soon, a space elevator to the Moon?

The firm Liftport set up by Michael Laine has launched an online campaign to fund the first part of its project to build a lunar space lift, the Daily Mail reported.

The radical Liftport system would allow cheap and simple access to the lunar surface via a 'ribbon' cable. Eventually it is hoped a 'space elevator' could even take people from earth directly to the lunar surface.

It first plans to test the system on earth with a 2km high elevator.

Initially it would use a space elevator to link the moon to a space station.

The LiftPort Group wants to raise USD 8,000 on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter for its first step