So what good is space tourism, rocket racing, or other seemingly-trivial endeavors? They’re actually very important, Taylor Dinerman argues in this week’s edition of The Space Review. Such ventures can stimulate interest in the space industry among students, and a vibrant industry filled with small developers is as important to the overall space field as […]
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The “Vox Populi” section of today’s Savannah Morning News provides responses from residents of the Georgia city to this question: “Entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari paid a reported $10 million to be the first private female space tourist to the international space station. If tourist travel to the stars becomes affordably feasible in our lifetime, would you […] Most of the media’s coverage about Anousheh Ansari’s upcoming flight to the ISS has billed her as the first female space tourist. Or is she? In a NASA Watch entry (perhaps more accurately described as a rant against the “hyping” of her flight), Keith Cowing says no: “The U.K.’s Helen Sharman was the first female […] Something to tuck away in the back of your mind if you’re thinking of heading to Las Cruces in about a month for the X Prize Cup: Two anonymous letters, including one sent to the local newspaper, the Sun-News, threatened random shootings of residents unless city officials pay a ransom. Law enforcement officials are taking […] The UK Space Biomedicine Group is holding is 3rd Space Medicine Conference on September 30-October 1 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. The penultimate panel of the conference, according to the program, will focus on “medical issues for space tourism”. The featured speakers include a doctor working for Virgin Galactic, Dr. Julia Tizard, and […] A newspaper in upstate New York, the Amherst Times, ran a New York Times article about Anousheh Ansari. Problem is, they made a typo in the headline: “SHE DREAMED OF THE SARS; NOW SHE’LL ALMOST TOUCH THEM”. While it’s entirely possible that she has dreamed of SARS, it’s unlikely she’ll have any chance to make […] I noted in an earlier post that one of the key issues with forecasting the demand for space tourism is the need to do an updated survey to see how preferences have changed since the original Futron/Zogby study in 2002. SPACE.com reports that such an effort is underway by Incredible Adventures, a Florida-based adventure tourism […] You may recall that a few years ago Futron Corporation published a demand forecast for orbital and suborbital space tourism that has been widely regarded in many quarters. [Full disclosure: Futron is my employer.] Yesterday Futron published a short white paper that slightly updates the results of the suborbital forecast, taking into accounts developments in […] A New York Times article Sunday about the special incentives and packages that credit card companies provide to their best customers includes a brief mention of a special Zero-G flight offered by American Express: Some American Express Platinum cardholders looked behind the curtain of space flight last month with a zero-gravity flight on a modified […] A related item to the post earlier this week about Congressman Frank Lucas talking up the Oklahoma Spaceport in his district: in an article in the Alva Review-Courier Lucas trotted out some statistics regarding spaceflight at a town meeting. “From my research I’ve determined that 40 percent of citizens who encounter weightlessness for the first […] |
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