In sci.space.history Val Kraut wrote:
So we out source the ISS taxi rides to China at a hugh savings - and
as a side benefit we get really accurate models of the LEO transfer
craft and launch vehilce from Trumpeter in three standard scales -
sounds win win to me. (Wait a minute - I forgot the airfare from
Houston to China,)

Given the likely vast number of empty shipping containers going from
the U.S. back to China, it is probably cost-effective to install a set
of bunks and a chemical toilet along with food and water into a 40'
container and ship the astronaughts (*) to China that way. Heck, it
might even be roomier than the ISS

rick jones

(*) seems an apt name for someone who's country has no way to get him
into space and back.

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