The next one hundred years

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Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] The next one hundred years

> Any prognostication should include some mention of space tourism. That
> could be the ace in the hole.
>

By the way, my "gut prognostic" for the period covering 2000-2010 is that
ISS will never get finished and will finally be shut down or rented/sold as
a space hotel. Also, the first space hotel - probably a complex of cheap
inflatable modules - will be built. Space tourism will flourish - though it
will be a market for millionaires only. But hey, that's how the car industry
began, as a near-handicraft activity for the extremely wealthy only - until
a couple of decades earlier the process was pipelined and made cheap enough
for the common man.

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> Ron
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Lucio