Proposed Space tourism for $15K
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.
[...] But it does not have to be so expensive, says Jay Penn of The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, which provides engineering research support for the US Department of Defense's space programme. "There is no fundamental technological reason why you can't achieve space tourism," he says. "We think we can get the price down to around $15,000 a passenger."
Yeah, cheap irony following an entry bashing consumption with one on dropping a sum that alone would definitively keep a family of three out of poverty on tourism with a high environmental footprint in terms of greenhouse gases. But as a feral child raised in the wild by Heinlein novels, god, I still want to go.
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