Wired News: To the Moon in a Space Elevator?

Hopefully, science will soon break the mystery of gravity and develop ways to negate it, so that enormous undertakings like this space cable are not necessary.

"Long imagined by science-fiction writers but seen by others as hopelessly far-fetched, the space-elevator concept has advanced dramatically in recent years along with leaps forward in the design of carbon nanotubes. Using the lightweight, strong carbon material, it's feasible to talk of building a meter-wide "ribbon" that would start on a mobile ocean platform at the equator, west of Ecuador, and extend 62,000 miles up into space."