Comments on: Confusing news about public interest in space tourism http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/05/06/confusing-news-about-public-interest-in-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: Peter Shearer http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/05/06/confusing-news-about-public-interest-in-space-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-145137 Mon, 07 May 2007 20:15:45 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/05/06/confusing-news-about-public-interest-in-space-tourism/#comment-145137 Market research is a tricky business… market research in Space Tourism… REALLY tricky it seems. All I know is… I’d throw off the numbers real quick.

Would I go…if money were no issue?
Sub-orbital 100% Yes (as a warm-up)
Orbital 100% Yes (would like to experience sleeping weightless)
Moon 100% YES (Would I have to come back???)
Mars 40% yes (I agree with Burt, it looks as bad as Mojave… ;)

The desire to go into space is so strong (for me anyways) that I wonder if there’d be desire to come back (to earth)? I think that when the desire to come back kicks in (seeing earth in all “her” beauty)… THAT’ll be the true THRILL!

]]> By: Space Politics » Mixed messages http://www.newspacejournal.com/2007/05/06/confusing-news-about-public-interest-in-space-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-144841 Sun, 06 May 2007 20:21:24 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/05/06/confusing-news-about-public-interest-in-space-tourism/#comment-144841 […] suggest a lack of sophistication. (I noted on Personal Spaceflight something similar about aspects of the poll dealing with space tourism.) Elsewhere, 54 percent of respondents said that NASA’s plans to return to the Moon should be […]

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