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Title: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: headdie on October 11, 2010, 02:57:28 am
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20101011/tsc-virgin-spaceship-in-first-solo-trip-4b158bc.html
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: S-99 on October 11, 2010, 07:53:44 am
Hi, enjoy the orbit, were not going to the moon.

I wonder if virgin will make a space station hotel. They probably wouldn't want to go for that. Needing tourists to insure themselves with the asteroid and space junk plan. Heck, that applies for orbiting the earth a couple of times to.
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Kosh on October 11, 2010, 09:54:30 am
Hi, enjoy the orbit, were not going to the moon.

I wonder if virgin will make a space station hotel. They probably wouldn't want to go for that. Needing tourists to insure themselves with the asteroid and space junk plan. Heck, that applies for orbiting the earth a couple of times to.


Last I heard they are developing a space station hotel. It's not enough to put people into space, they need a place to go.
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Locutus of Borg on October 11, 2010, 10:10:43 am
The Virgin project was a dream given form....
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Titan on October 11, 2010, 10:30:15 am
Jesus, that damn comglomerate is everywhere...
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Kosh on October 11, 2010, 11:31:24 pm
I wish I had my own conglomerate....... :(
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Redstreblo on October 12, 2010, 12:25:07 am
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Commercial flights will depart from New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction

I think that one line says it all really. ;7
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Titan on October 12, 2010, 08:57:54 am
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Commercial flights will depart from New Mexico where a spaceport is under construction

I think that one line says it all really. ;7

Don't we already have one there?
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Shade on October 12, 2010, 09:01:22 am
Spaceports? Not in New Mexico, I think. Main US spaceports are in Florida and California. Of course, I could be wrong.

[Edit] Actually, if you consider White Sands to be a spaceport, then I suppose I -am- wrong.
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: headdie on October 12, 2010, 09:11:00 am
Spaceports? Not in New Mexico, I think. Main US spaceports are in Florida and California. Of course, I could be wrong.

[Edit] Actually, if you consider White Sands to be a spaceport, then I suppose I -am- wrong.

virgin are building their own
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Shade on October 12, 2010, 09:14:29 am
Yes. They are. Read what I replied to :p
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Nuke on October 12, 2010, 04:17:02 pm
Spaceports? Not in New Mexico, I think. Main US spaceports are in Florida and California. Of course, I could be wrong.

[Edit] Actually, if you consider White Sands to be a spaceport, then I suppose I -am- wrong.

kodiak has a space port
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Shade on October 12, 2010, 10:32:27 pm
And, unless the geography of the world has changed a lot recently, that is in Alaska. And since when does the fact that there's a spaceport in Alaska have a bearing on whether there already exists a spaceport in New Mexico prior to Virgin Galactic constructing one? :p

Unless you're arguing against the main US spaceports being Vandenberg and Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canavaral, in which case notice the word 'main', which is not the word 'only', and implies that more exist besides those mentioned.
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Nuke on October 12, 2010, 11:50:49 pm
And, unless the geography of the world has changed a lot recently, that is in Alaska. And since when does the fact that there's a spaceport in Alaska have a bearing on whether there already exists a spaceport in New Mexico prior to Virgin Galactic constructing one? :p

Unless you're arguing against the main US spaceports being Vandenberg and Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canavaral, in which case notice the word 'main', which is not the word 'only', and implies that more exist besides those mentioned.

im just saying there are more space ports than you think.
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Scourge of Ages on October 13, 2010, 04:09:15 pm
I just really love the sound of that term... Spaceport
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: S-99 on October 18, 2010, 12:49:24 am
We're still a long way from mos eisley on earth.
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Scotty on October 18, 2010, 01:22:20 am
North Korea looks to be the closest we've got.  After all, you won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villiany. ;)
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: Kosh on October 18, 2010, 01:47:19 am
 Are you sure about that? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8684460.stm)
Title: Re: inching closer to space tourism
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 18, 2010, 02:28:58 am
Are you sure about that? (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8684460.stm)

In North Korea, the kidnappers are the government, and it's several hundred every day.