10-Year Plan

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:

> The question isn't what you spend. It's what you launch. I've seen
> figures that suggest that the true cost of launching a man, even with
> low tech expendables can be as low as $100,000 per person.

You are probably thinking of the Russian tourist project that intends to
launch 2 tourists at a time on a sub-orbital flight for $100,000
apiece. Unfortunately, achieving orbital velocity is ****much****
harder than going sub-orbital.

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