Passenger market for orbital flights.

On Nov 18, 11:59*pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
"Uncle Al" wrote in message

...

Robert Clark wrote:

According to this article Virgin Atlantic is planning on marketing
just
suborbital flights at $200,000 and it reports a survey said orbital
flights might be commercially viable at $500,000:
[snip crap]

It won't go anywhere until there is accommodation for sexual
intercourse. *Porn will provide the traffic.

Virgin Galactic (not Atlantic) has already hinted at that possibility.

Though it'll have to be a quicky.
...
Greg Moore

The viability of profitable passenger flights to orbit and the
viability of "space hotels" would support each other in a synergistic
fashion, since the space hotels would give passengers some place to
go, rather than just having to come back down after a few orbits.

Bigelow Aerospace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigelow_Aerospace


Bob Clark