| It sounds like the same gimmick where people bought Pan-Am tickets
for a future flight to Earth's Moon (Luna), back in the days of
the APOLLO program.
Supposedly, they are legit, and the flight reservations WILL
be honored...someday.
Pan-Am was picked, I believe, because it was the company logo
used on the shuttle which flew Heywood Floyd to the space station
orbiting Earth in the 1968 film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
Larry
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| From: dls@genrad.com (Diana L. Syriac)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Final Frontier June 1989....EXCELLENT ISSUE
Date: 1 May 89 13:20:00 GMT
Sender: news@genrad.UUCP
Followup-To: sci.space
The June issue of Final Frontier is one of the best I've seen in a
long time. I'd recommend it as excellent reading for anyone who's
interested in Space Tourism.
Among other things, it has an article describing the "Ultimate
Vacation", plus lists all of the various "Space-on-Earth" camps
available in the US, plus lists all the organizations (including
address)which have taken an active interest in promoting future space
tourism. There's an article on Artificial Gravity being studied here
in Massachusetts; there's a large article on the International Space
University, started at MIT (but worldwide) a couple of years ago;
another article on Spaceplanes.
And on top of all that, they still have room to describe the
STS-29 shuttle mission file and the new STS-30 Magellan project.
Plus, there's a "phone in your vote" poll on Citizen's in Space.
Phone is 1-900-786-3663 ($1.25 per phone call, touch tone phones
only), and question is: "Should NASA resume its program to take
ordinary citizens on the shuttle?"
This is definitely a collector's items when it comes to space magazines.
Back issues (and subscriptions) can be ordered thru:
Final Frontier
PO Box 20089
Minneapolis, MN 55420
Subscription is $14.95 for one year (6 issues), back issues are
"$5.00 for each issue plus $2.50 postage and handling". You can also
use a credit card by phoning 612-884-6420.
I have no affiliation whatsoever with Final Frontier, I'm just an
interested reader.
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| Article: 53503
From: mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Space Tourism
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:31:52 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
I've dug up a paper by Patrick Collins on this subject.
Author: Patrick Q. Collins
Title: STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOW EARTH ORBIT TOURISM
Journal: Space Technology Vol. 9 No. 3 pp. 315-323 1989
Abstract - It is known that the popular demand for short passenger
flights into low Earth orbit would be significant even at very high
prices, and market research suggests that as the price of such a
service fell towards $10,000, the number of passengers might grow as
high as one million per year. Such a level of activity would be very
significant for the develop- ment of the space industry, requiring
much higher launch rates and lower costs than currently envisaged for
other purposes. If such a service is initiated, the range of services
offered to passengers will develop progressively through a number of
stages as traffic increases. The paper considers the sequence of
develop- ments that can be foreseen - from short sub-orbital
space-flights in the early stages, to extended visits to large-scale
orbiting facilities, such as hotels and even theme parks, some decades
later - and discusses certain features of each stage, as well as some
of their implications for the growth of a commercial space industry.
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