In article , "Mike Rhino"
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"Hop David" wrote in message
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Suppose a space tourism market does come to pass: Rich folk ride the
descendants of an X-prize winner to enjoy the view and weightlessness.
The flights would be suborbital or low earth orbit, no?

Would this make Mars, the moon, or even high earth orbit more accessible?

Hop
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html

My plan is to skip low Earth orbit altogether and go straight to the moon.

Do you mean your astronauts (and tourists) would be launched directly from
Earth to the Moon?

That would require very large launch vehicles, even if you did it the way
Apollo did. Surely a very expensive way of running your business!

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Stephen Souter

http://www.edfac.usyd.edu.au/staff/souters/