| who the boldly hell is Captain Kirk? |
U r having us all over, surely? Or am I really that old...sigh
| Space flight is pretty taxing physically. Most people would need a lot of training. |
This is space tourism we r talking about here. The idea is anyone would be able to do it, regardless of physical fitness, age etc...
| Thats what Virgin Galactic is for, keep selling expensive seats until the Tech gets cheap enough |
Yep, good luck to them is what I say and to all those small independent ventures around the world who r sick of our slow progress into space. Nasa is cool, but if we continue at there speed, slow, slow, stop, slow...it will be a 1000 yrs before we escape our own solar system.
Besides the tourism venture, Virgin r also heavily into the first space plane. This new type of plane/spacecraft would be capable of transporting people from any 1 point on Earth to another point in just 40 minutes. It goes into low Earth orbit to achieve this and seats would obviously after be reasonably cheap (concorde price, would carry more people), Richard Branson is really keen on both those ventures.
If we can make space profitable, we will leap forward at a faster pace.
