The next one hundred years

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: The next one hundred years

# 2421 byian.woollard@... on Feb. 12, 2002, 10:40 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

It's not entirely comparable.

e.g. you can't sue Mount Everest; a Space Launch company
can be sued.

-Ian.

Combs, Mike wrote:

>
> From: Ian Woollard [mailto:ian.woollard@...]
>
> My big concern about space tourism is reliability. Will
> the tourism market dry up the first time they lose a
> launch vehicle? The failure rate historically is about 1%.
>
> Did people stop climbing Everest with the first fatality?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs
>

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