Comments on: Bolden’s a “big fan” of space tourism http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/24/boldens-a-big-fan-of-space-tourism/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Jeff Foust http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/24/boldens-a-big-fan-of-space-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-54487 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:03:49 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/12/24/boldens-a-big-fan-of-space-tourism/#comment-54487 Jon:

There is some orbital pricing data in the Futron market study, including a chart that shows that 16% of respondents would be willing to pay $10M for a flight, versus 7% for $20M. The demand and revenue curves also factor in decreasing ticket prices through the forecast period. However, the Zogby survey data used in the study are now nearly five years old, and increased awareness of space tourism (both suborbital and orbital) likely have changed those figures.

As for circumlunar flights, there’s so little market data (essentially zero) right now that any demand estimate would be little more than speculation. Such flights weren’t on the radar in the original Zogby survey, but it would be useful to add for any followup survey.

]]> By: Jonathan Goff http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/24/boldens-a-big-fan-of-space-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-50975 Mon, 25 Dec 2006 22:29:59 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/12/24/boldens-a-big-fan-of-space-tourism/#comment-50975 Jeff,
Yeah, I was looking over t/Space’s review (in their CE&R report to NASA from last year) of Futron’s Space Tourism study the other day. The impact of streamlining training down to 1 month, and bringing it to the US was quite significant. They estimated something like a 86% increase in demand even at the current prices.

Just out of curiousity, what do you think the demand is likely to be at the proposed Bigelow rate of $8-10M per seat? Especially if training was 1 month or less, and launch was from the US?

And do you have any opinion about what kind of price point translunar travel (ie lunar flybys) would likely need to reach before it started seeing significant interest? I’ve got any idea I’m working on for relatively near-term translunar tourism at a much lower price-point than the CSI or Space Adventures offerings, but was trying to figure out if there’d likely be enough demand to make further investigation worthwhile.

Oh, and Merry Christmas! :-)

~Jon

~Jon

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