Digsy Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20101011/tsc-virgin-spaceship-in-first-solo-trip-4b158bc.html I can't believe that Space Ship One was in 2004! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Technologically, it's a great achievement. However I just can't see space tourism being commercially viable, mainly because AFAIK there's not much to see/do other than look down on Earth through a spacecraft's porthole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 Technologically, it's a great achievement. However I just can't see space tourism being commercially viable, mainly because AFAIK there's not much to see/do other than look down on Earth through a spacecraft's porthole. And? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 And? Care to expand on that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackso11 Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I would have thought anyone would be able to expand on that. Looking down on the earth would be absolutely amazing!! It like saying why do people climb mountains just to look at an amazing view from the top, or why do you go on holiday to see places you have never seen before. If I could afford it I would love to go up to the edge of the atmophere and look back on earth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davej705 Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I would have thought anyone would be able to expand on that. Looking down on the earth would be absolutely amazing!! It like saying why do people climb mountains just to look at an amazing view from the top, or why do you go on holiday to see places you have never seen before. If I could afford it I would love to go up to the edge of the atmophere and look back on earth! Hell yeah! I would love to go to space,that article said they have taken $50m in deposits so it would seem alot of other people would aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_b Posted October 11, 2010 Share Posted October 11, 2010 I see your point, but climbing mountains is interactive and exhilerating. Seeing places you have never seen usually involves looking at something for longer than half an hour, through an aperture bigger than a porthole, and then you usually get to have an explore at your leisure after the tour guide has done their spiel. It is a technologically amazing thing to be able to look down on Earth, but to me "the juice isn't worth the squeeze." The conditions and circumstances don't appeal to me. Maybe my view is in the minority. This thread so far indicates that I am in the minority. Maybe that's why Richard Branson is extremely wealthy and I'm not. It would give huge bragging rights to those who do it (i.e. they can tell their friends/family that they've done it), but I would think those who could afford this (assuming it would cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds per seat) would not be bothered by such motivations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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