Space tourism 'viable at $15,000 a seat'

Discussion in 'Serious' started by GreatOldOne, 4 Nov 2002.

  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    "The time is ripe for developing a profitable space tourism industry, according to advisers to the US Air Force space programme. They have developed a strategy that they say could make space flight so cheap it could attract millions of space tourists within 10 years.

    So far, space tourism has been open only to multi-millionaires. In 2001, American businessman Dennis Tito became the first space tourist, paying a reported $20 million for a place on a Russian Soyuz rocket that docked with the International Space Station (ISS). South African Internet millionaire Mark Shuttleworth followed earlier in 2002."


    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992983
     
  2. joe the dishwasher

    joe the dishwasher Honk

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    that sounds good only $15,000 but i think we still need to wait patiently until we get out of te rescession we are in at the moment because now everything is either getting more expensive or staying expensive to keep the economy going:blah:
     

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