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Old December 18th 07, 07:37 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Ian Parker
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On 18 Dec, 18:55, Eric Chomko wrote:

Space tourism will have its own set of challenges with saftey. Some
idiot is simply bound to see if he can survive in a vacuum with no
equipment, that is one you can count on.- Hide quoted text -

I wasn't talking about deliberate stupidity, I was thinking about the
basic unreliability of launchers and reentry + the radiation received.
Solar flres etc.

We were told the Shuttle was going to be safe and cheap. It was
neither.


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