Jeff Findley ) wrote:
: "Dave O'Neill" wrote in message
: om...
: Still, I have my skeptic's hat ready to eat and will be glad to
: publically eat crow should space tourism take off. That doesn't alter
: my current view that the market is not sufficient to allow for the
: large scale space development that Rand wants - at least not on its
: own without something else.
:
: Still, I've been wrong before and I'll be happy to be wrong on this
: one.

: With Virgin predicting that they'll be pricing the first (most expensive)
: suborbital trips at about $200k, I think that this industry might just take
: off. That price is, after all, a full two orders of magnitude cheaper than
: the price the Russians want for an orbital Soyuz flight.

: What's $200k to the ultra rich who want to experience "the ultimate thrill
: ride" coupled with the "coolest space vacation" money can buy?

Just out of curiousity, what are the two space tourism customers saying
about it? Are they jacked about returning to space, or is it like many
skydivers that after there single trip that is enough?

Eric

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