For or Against . . .

If the costs stay this high, there will be no space colonies. Without
good transportation, you can't get from here to there.

On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 03:12 PM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> As I stated in an earlier response, the shipping costs in supplying
> imports to our habitat dwellers will be enormous. Consider the
> $25.00 to $75.00 shipping cost for a single toothbrush. Or, using
> the same criteria from my earlier post, a roll of toilet paper, 4
> inches in diameter and 4 inches in height, will cost $261.80 to LEO,
> based on 27 rolls per ft^3, and perhaps up to $785.40 to an L5 orbit.

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