Who are the Other Two going to be?

"Mike Rhino" wrote:

Would it make sense to sell those two seats? We usually think of tourism as
a later stage activity, but you can put tourists on the very first flight.

Not if what you're flying is an experimental aircraft. N328KF is one, I
believe.

Mike Rhino wrote:
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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For the X-prize, there have to be three. Who are the Other Two? Are they
the other crew who's bios are on Scaled's page?

Would it make sense to sell those two seats? We usually think of tourism as
a later stage activity, but you can put tourists on the very first flight.

Potentially not. It depends on how much extra hassle and cost with insurance
it adds.


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"johnhare" writes:

"Mike Rhino" wrote in message
...
"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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For the X-prize, there have to be three. Who are the Other Two? Are
they
the other crew who's bios are on Scaled's page?

Would it make sense to sell those two seats? We usually think of tourism
as
a later stage activity, but you can put tourists on the very first flight.

Whenever we make it back to the moon, we could let someone with money be
the
first person of this century to step on the moon. That assumes that the
lunar rocket has been tested by sending supplies to the moon with unmanned
missions.

Someone with money seems to be the criteria for certain firsts. Tito as paid
tourist
to orbit, Allen financing SS1. At a similar cost each, one wonders which
will
derive the greatest satisfaction from the 20M or so. Not today, but ten
years
from now, which of them will be happier with their investment?



I suspect that 100 years from now Tito will be, at the very best, a
very small footnote in the history books.

Paul Allen's name may get used for the next 500 years, as Queen
Isabel's has for the previous 500 , as the prime enabler for the next
great expansion of the human race.

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(Alan Anderson) writes:

"Mike Rhino" wrote:

Would it make sense to sell those two seats? We usually think of tourism as
a later stage activity, but you can put tourists on the very first flight.

Not if what you're flying is an experimental aircraft. N328KF is one, I
believe.

Under FAA rules, you can't charge, but passengers _are_ allowed to
reimburse the pilot for "costs incurred".

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(Richard D. Latham) writes:

(Alan Anderson) writes:

"Mike Rhino" wrote:

Would it make sense to sell those two seats? We usually think of tourism
as a later stage activity, but you can put tourists on the very first
flight.

Not if what you're flying is an experimental aircraft. N328KF is one, I
believe.

Under FAA rules, you can't charge, but passengers _are_ allowed to
reimburse the pilot for "costs incurred".


But only the pilot, not the owner, so only if Mike Melville or whomever
actually pays Scaled Composites to rent SpaceShip One, as opposed to
being paid to fly it, can money be extracted from the passengers.

And only on a pro-rated scale, so the two hypothetical passengers on
a three-man flight can only pay the hypothetical pilot two-thirds of
what he hypothetically pays Scaled to rent the bird.

This really isn't a workable solution.


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(Richard D. Latham) :

I suspect that 100 years from now Tito will be, at the very best, a
very small footnote in the history books.

Paul Allen's name may get used for the next 500 years, as Queen
Isabel's has for the previous 500 , as the prime enabler for the next
great expansion of the human race.

I can see the two names linked together, as in "After the example of Tito
paying out $20 million for a flight into orbit, Paul Allen's support for the
first commerial tourist craft clearly the major gamble others tried to make
it out to be, he clearly knew that he would find customers in the sub-million
dollar tickets market.

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