When space tourism will be possible for a normal tourist?
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When spending 20 million dollars become commonplace in the future.
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read this.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060522/sc_space/towardimmortalitythesocialburdenoflongerlives  i think it WILL happen. and for me i WANT to live longer. I want to see our species travel beyond our solar system and find new life. Then i will be happier.
633362
Yes.  But only if the amount of resources we can get continue to increase.  If we can develop robust space industry this will not be a problem.
425143
Yes, but not in our lifetime.  The orbit is 1,500 years from our sun to a dead sun outside our solar system.  We have a better chance of meeting helpful space visitors than planet X.
645192
No, there's nothing really to see on the moon, and the environment is a bit harsh to do much of anything without a spacesuit.\n\nMaybe in a few hundred years, we will have more advanced technology that lets us visit other places more easily.
526582
Good question!\n\nA there are two groups of people with different points of views. I will try to overview both of them.\n\nFirst, there are the people that are promoting space travel as a tourist approach.  They are basically in it for the money.  A new gimic to get money from people is always around the corner.  There idea is not too weird however, because people looked at each new mode of transportation as a weird idea.  As people used the new mode of transportation from boats, to horse and buggy, to trains, to automobile, and to airplanes; each of these was improved to accomadate and make that particular mode better and safer.  So, although, there are people in it for the money it would have the benefit of making space travel safer and better as it develops.\n\nSecond there are those in the scientific point of view.  They feel it somehow cheapens and degrades their efforts for true space exporation.  They want money from the government and donators to help fund their projects into outer space to discover new things in space and on other planets.\n\nActually, we need both types of ideas and the people that feel that way.  To keep most people interested in space efforts all the attention possible must be give to the effort.  So any thing that brings attention to the efforts of space is usually a good thing!\n\nRemember that creativity comes in many forms and it is the end results that counts.  We need more people to grown up wanting to explore space and going into college after those courses that will help them to become scientists, idealist, pilots, ground personell, and so forth.\n\nSpace tourism may never become an everyday event, but it will sure help get some attention to the space programs of today.
127231
I ceratinly hope so. It would mean so much to space exploration if private companies dared to venture into space. Branson have already sold alot of tickets but if anything goes wrong and somebody dies it would be the end of Virgin Galactic. And possibly Virgin and Richard Branson.
72063
They already do. Do you mean, inter-planetary flights? And if so, how far away? Pluto? Nuh-uh. Mars? Not necessarily a bad idea. It all depends on how far away the mission crew is to be sent, and how long the duration of the journey is to be. If the crew were to find themselves in an emergency, they would of course have to be more resilient and capable of quick thinking because Houston would not be of any help to them.
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The Earth is a finite resource and will become uninhabitable one day.   Global warming, nuclear accident, hit from a big rock from space - there are plenty of disaster scenarios.\n\nWe need to be prepared.  To that end NASA needs to do so much more research, travel to other planets, set up a base on the moon and mars and, above all work towards spaceflight being like flying today.   Sound far fetched?   When my dad was a boy man couldn't fly and before he died men were standing on the moon.\n\nProfessor Stephen Hawking, he who wrote 'A brief History of Time', recently stated that if mankind did not seek out planetary travel pretty quickly there was a good chance a natural disaster would wipe out all human life!
93140
i dont know but i bet the zero gravity thing would make for a good time!
169934
Absolutely! I would hope since the previous trip ended in disaster, NASA would be extra-cautious. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I couldn't pass up.
378796
well, first off, if we had a day for everything, then everyday would seem pointless, and none of the special days would be special.\n\nI would suggest that if it is stars which you wish to see, in the absence of ambient lighting, then why not go camping possibly in the mountains, or near a lake and take your telescope along for the trip, and enjoy,  If it is star gazing which you wish to promote, then start a club and invite other people with your same interest, and take them camping with you while you star gaze.
213319
Well there's a trip to the edge of space you could do, costs £13500, check it out on buyagift.co.uk That's the first thing I'd do!!
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Of course they will get there. It is merely an issue of enough fuel to guid and proel the ship. As long as they have an airtight capsule they will be able to make it. \n\nThe bigger issue is why waste money going. Unless you have a reasonable sense of getting a return for your investment why go. \n\nIn short they will not go until technology is developed that would allow people to go and stay for an extended period.
126942
Not anytime soon, no. First, we have to send people back to the moon and then do manned missions to Mars before we can go that far into the solar system!
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Virgin Galactic is offering this "as soon as 2008" for the low price of 100 million USD.  Realistically, it will probably take more than a few years to ramp up tourist missions to the moon, especially if no one is signing up...
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I would love to get the chance to ride into space!  I think it would make me appreciate our planet Earth more.  There's nothing up there except cold, dark rock.\n\nBut I think it would be nice to experience 0 G.  Free floating!!!!!