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mars-elevator-project
The large-scale engineering and organizational effort to build a space elevator on Mars, involving multiple international stakeholders.
1 chapter across 1 book
Red Mars (1992)Kim Stanley Robinson
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Frank establishes the Department of Mars offices in Sheffield, consolidating American efforts on the Mars elevator project despite staff protests. He manages relationships with American executives and international workers, organizing them under a coherent policy to maintain influence amid competing global powers involved in different aspects of the elevator construction. The chapter highlights the geopolitical and corporate power struggles shaping the Mars colonization efforts.