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ITM Master 1. Sem.
Space-ial Tourism leaving Planet Earth
First commercial passenger in space:
Toyohiro Akiyama, Journalist (1990) Ticket price: 28 Mio. US$
First tourist in space: Dennis Tito (2001) Ticket price: 20 Mio. US$
Anousheh Ansari, first female space tourist (2006) Ticket price: 16 Mio. US$
"Space tourism" today is just about orbiting around earth or sub-orbital flights.
Space Hotel Model
Beginning of 2013: Products on the market
Example: http://www.virgingalactic.com/
NEXT STEP: TO THE MOON pdf (750 mio. US$ p.P.)
During an investigation of the British parliament in 2007, Richard Dyer from Friends of the Earth told the committee: "Virgin Galactic will be the ultimate in irresponsible elitist travel. There's a strange irony in tourists looking back at our damaged earth as they are helping to warm it up". In a study released in October 2010, climate scientists concluded that as few as 1,000 rocket launches per year would cause worldwide climate change. Adam Mann, Space Tourism to Accelerate Climate Change, Nature News (Oct. 22, 2010), http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101022/full/news.2010.558.html
Discussion: Space Tourism: Last gasp of environmental un-friendly tourism or New Frontier for tourism development?
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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS |
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