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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grug on April 05, 2006, 07:05:30 pm
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18727730-421,00.html
ADELAIDE-born astronaut Andy Thomas is pushing a $150 million project to turn the Woomera rocket range into an international spaceport for tourists.
Space tourism! =o
That would be cool. :D
Though still alot of money. =(
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Neat :)
Virgin Galactic is getting ready to build a spaceport in New Mexico as well, IIRC.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18727730-421,00.html
ADELAIDE-born astronaut Andy Thomas is pushing a $150 million project to turn the Woomera rocket range into an international spaceport for tourists.
Space tourism! =o
That would be cool. :D
Though still alot of money. =(
And this just happens to come as several millions tonnes of alcohol are found to be floating out in space?
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And this just happens to come as several millions tonnes of alcohol are found to be floating out in space?
:rolleyes:
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Huh? It only costs $150 million to build a spaceport? That can't be accurate can it? Otherwise, every non-starving country on Earth could afford one.
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Well, given that all you really need are space, concrete, a hangar, a radio and maybe a radar, it doesn't sound unreasonable. You don't need Heathrow mk2 to launch and recover one craft once a week.
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It'd probably cost more to do one or two launches than to actually build the spaceport.
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It'd probably cost more to do one or two launches than to actually build the spaceport.
How much did it cost to build the Kennedy Space Center?
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That was (and is) a highly advanced place with facilities for truely huge (Saturn V) rockets, and shuttle maintainence, I don't imagine private spaceports deal with the same things.
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With the type of craft they're planning on using to get to orbit, it wouldn't be much more expensive then building an airport suited to handle Gulfstream-type jets. You can find those all over the world. 150mil is probably a little optimistic, but you don't need the facilities you'd find in a major airport, much less Kennedy.
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It's already a rocket range, so its more of an upgrade than a start from scratch. :)
And this just happens to come as several millions tonnes of alcohol are found to be floating out in space?
Zero G Beer anyone? :p
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It's already a rocket range, so its more of an upgrade than a start from scratch. :)
And this just happens to come as several millions tonnes of alcohol are found to be floating out in space?
Zero G Beer anyone? :p
No thanks. I just got back from space with my newly found Bosch Beer. Funny, there was a few tons of that crap lyin around up there. Wonder why nobody else is takeing some.
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Ah. It's infected with rabies.
Shivan rabies.