Comments on: Spaceport Woomera http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/04/06/spaceport-woomera/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Shubber Ali http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/04/06/spaceport-woomera/comment-page-1/#comment-1264 Sun, 21 May 2006 21:04:07 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/04/06/spaceport-woomera/#comment-1264 It never ceases to amaze how gullible people can be when you add the word “space” to any idea.

I can only hope the Australian government doesn’t fall for yet another crazy spaceport idea. What is the purpose of rushing to build a spaceport for a vehicle that doesn’t exist? Imagine how asinine the Aussie government would have looked for investing money into an airport in the 1890s…

First they were suckered into Christmas Island, now it’s a refurb of Woomera. I wonder – have these people NEVER taken a course in economics?

Space Tourism is a fictional market – so far THREE people have gone to the Space Station, in the 5+ years since that destination opened for tourists. And yet, the self-serving proponents of this business believe that there is a market for BILLIONS of dollars of suborbital tourism in vehicles that have yet to be built.

Sounds like someone has an agenda they are trying to sell.

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