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Published online 23 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061023-4
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Space elevator stuck at ground level
NASA keeps its cash as X-Prize Cup fails to find a winner.
It was a showcase of high-tech space technology, but this weekend's X-Prize Cup was cursed by mis-directed post, mis-measured competition equipment and entrants that nearly blew away in the wind.
In the end, there were no winners in the competitions for lunar landers and space elevators (see 'Race to space in New Mexico.
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