Jan 21, 2009 4:14pm
Bad News for Multimillionaires
EmailRoscosmos, the Russian space Agency, has let it be known it will stop launching space tourists after this spring. The International Space Station will soon have enough equipment and power to support a crew of six instead of three, and all the seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft are taken for the time being. More HERE from RAI Novosti, the Russian news service. If your Russian is up to speed (and your browser supports Cyrillic), you can find the original announcement on the Roscosmos website HERE. Anousheh Ansari, who flew in 2006, admitted to Wired Magazine last year that the hardest part of buying a trip into space was coming back: "You realize that you may never experience this again." Bummer.
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The Russians should build their own space station if they want to catter to tourists. The ISS was designed for scientific purposes, not for space tourists.
Posted by: GWP | January 22, 2009, 9:14 am 9:14 am
Millionaire space tourists tourists infuse cash into the private space industry and the private sector-friendly Russian Space Program. The private sector makes possible a whole host of technologies and opportunities for using space, for example DirecTV, and enables every day people, not just governments, to benefit from access to space. Ambitious projects involving energy, exploration, and communications outside of the scope of what governments will take on can only be done by the private sector.
Posted by: ssteiner | January 22, 2009, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
The problem ssteiner is that the private sector just do not have the money to fund their own way into outer space. If travelling into space would be made cheaper by finding a non-expensive way to get into outer space, then the private sector would able to build their own stations, private yachets, etc. to make space tourism truly possible.
So until that time comes, the governments are the only means to get into outer space.
Posted by: GWP | January 22, 2009, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
Not sure where ssteiner gets their info but at no reliable source I am aware of and I read a lot of aerospace magazines and published materials. The Russians never delve into the private sector and merely pocket the cash for their own strapped space program. They “infuse” nothing into any technologies for the world. I would challenge ssteiner to document otherwise and post.
Posted by: KSCQC | January 22, 2009, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm
Well tough luck.
I own an small atv tire and parts store
and would never in a million years be able to afford the price tag. I just hope
one day the privet sector will make it affordable. then i will go on a ride of a life time.
Posted by: atv tires | January 31, 2009, 11:50 am 11:50 am