Space tourism, and the unspoken US victory in space

If you have to have an ejection system for the tourists, I don't think
you have a market. The reliability needs to improve.

On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 06:18 AM, Combs, Mike wrote:

> From: Ryan Healey [mailto:bestonnet_00@...]
>
>> There are safety reasons not to do this. Something about no escape
>> system
>> being possible in a tourism module.
>
> When I fly on a passenger jet, there's no escape system to eject me
> from the
> vehicle if it should break up around me. I simply depend on it not to
> do
> so. Most of the time it doesn't.
>
> On the other hand, I suppose someone could make the point that there
> probably aren't many passenger jets flying with a 1% failure rate.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs
>

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html