Space Tourism: New Commercial Opportunities in Space
Project: ET2 Architecture?
Project: ET2 Architecture?
The main conclusion is that spaceplanes can reduce the cost of human transport to orbit sufficiently for large new commercial markets to develop. Combining the reusability of spaceplanes with the high traffic levels of space tourism offers the prospect of a thousandfold reduction in the cost per seat to orbit. The result will be airline operations to orbit involving dozens of spaceplanes, each capable of one or two flights per day. These low costs will make possible a rapid expansion of space science and exploration.
http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/growing_popular_interest_in_space_tourism_challenge_and_opportunity_for_space_agencies.shtml
http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/growing_popular_interest_in_space_tourism_challenge_and_opportunity_for_space_agencies.shtml





