Space tourism, and the unspoken US victory in space

You may need a seat (for launch and re-entry) and a little life support
to go with each customer ...

On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 08:29 AM, panamabob wrote:

> Did I miss
> read that the payload could be as much as 200 tons? average weight of
> 'customer" at 400 lbs (seat, box lunch, champagne bottle, T-shirt)
> Hmmm 400,000 lbs devided by 400 lbs....
>

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