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Subj: RE: [ssi_list] Re: Markets
Date: 10/16/2001 3:17:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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These are my last comments on this issue. I suggest it would be illegal, if

As you wish.

not immoral for NASA, which is funded by US taxpayers, to allow the ISS to

It is perfectly legal.

It is perfectly moral.

be used solely or primarily as a resort hotel for the profit of foreign
companies and governments, and not to try and carry out the objectives for

Please cite the law under which this is illegal ?

By foreign do you include ESA ?

ISS is an international facility, funding comes from a variety of nations, mostly ESA and NASA.

Space Adventures is an American company.

Mircorp is a Dutch company, and the Netherland is a major participant in ESA.

NASA is required by law to help commercial space, but they are doing the precise opposite.

which congress funded it. Even if NASA was foolish enough to ask congress
to consider this, congress would look at the economics and say it could not

NASa is doing the opposite, they are asking congress to pass laws which explicitly prohibit tourists on ISS.

Even though tourists routinely visit federal facilities, including NASA facilities.

Note the irony, private companies make a nice profit from running tour buses around at least three different NASA centers.

Is this illegal ? No of course not.

Is this immoral ? No of course not.

ever have enough rooms as a hotel to pay "the rent". I repeat my earlier

Russia, Mircorp and Space Adventures all make good profts.

statement, that without the US and Soviet governments, which includes NASA,
no human would yet have gone to space and folks like us would be arguing if

Yes they have done good work in the past.

Does this entitle them to an eternal monopoloy on manned space flight ?

I think not....

CFR.