space_tourism


	space_tourism
Mahayana	"Eager to open up a space tourism market, a Russian aerospace company presented a mock-up on March 14, 2002, of a 'space plane' that would give an adventurer willing to pay nearly $100,000 the chance to experience three minutes in zero gravity on the edge of space. About 100 people have already booked seats to fly on the Cosmopolis-XXI (C-21) suborbital plane, said Eric Anderson, president and CEO of Space Adventures, an Arlington, Va.-based company working with Russia's private Suborbital Corporation on the project." $100,000 = 3 mins 3 mins [4] $100,000	020320
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minnesota_chris	it is ridiculous, isn't it? To think of how much good could be done with 100,000 dollars.	020320
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tourist	The real tourist market won't open up until there is a space hotel in operation. Plans have been discussed on using the liquid feul tanks from the U.S.Space shuttle, boosting them into orbit instead of burning them up over the Indian Ocean. The idea would be to string about a dozen together like a bunch of sausage links, them join the string end to end into a hoop which would be spun with just enough force to induce say 1/4 G within the sections. The interiors would be dressed out into rooms and the slight gravity would simplify things like Plumbing and cooking, but still be light enough to allow for some superman like stunts. The whole array would be joined to a central hub to facilitate docking, and allow for a Zero G experience to be shared. In my opinion the tourist Trade is less important than getting an of world Human presence established for the long haul. Radio telescopes on the back side of the Moon, or a serious asteroid mining operation. We need to do this. In the fourteen hundreds Europe was floundering in the dark, the disovery of the americas infused the old world with wealth and new products propelling it into an age of growth and learning. People need Frontiers, We always have. But I Rant......	020320
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tourist	OFF WORLD PRESENCE Spell check!	020320
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andru235	interplanetary	051020

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