Posted on 09/05/2005 5:08:35 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Eric Anderson's company has taken two wealthy tourists on $20-million trips to the International Space Station using Russian equipment and launch pad.
Now he's preparing to offer hour-long, suborbital flights to the public for a mere $100,000. And he'd like to base the operations in Florida.
Anderson is president and chief executive of Space Adventures, which has offices in Arlington, Va., Moscow and now near the Kennedy Space Center. He pitched his business -- and bold request for incentives -- to members of the state Commission on the Future of Space and Aeronautics at their meeting in Tampa last week.
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Why go Mars? We have NOLA with all the Space Cadets you'd ever want to see!I mean Blanko and Nagin have definitely landed from another planet!
Those two shrubs can stay here.. I want to go to Mars to stay away from people like those two...
The state of Florida should not be persuaded into providing subsidies for private space tourism.
Bump!
I'm not a big fan of the corporate world but I agree that they'll be the ones to get us into space. I kinda like the idea of rockets covered with NASCAR style decals.
Those two spaced aliens were dropped off from their Mother Ships. The aliens didn't want those losers, either.
Fred Smith got a C- for his business paper which outlined an overnight delivery system. Today Smith, FEDEX's founder, is a billionaire. What do you think of Smith's business prof's prescient grading of that paper!!!
Given the right incentives, I recommend a 100% capital investment credit for all capital and operational investments in space, Will see a growth in large and small space enterprises. COMSAT grew that way and so might FEDEX if it can invest in the FEDEX interorbit tug which would move things from Earth to LEO GEO and Lunar Orbit and beyond!
Exxon would build the tank farm at the LEO truck stop, (AKA the ISS) where Bigelow's motel is situated next to the truck stop and strip warehouses that you see around any market center or water port, airport and now space port.
By changing the miind set and getting NASA out of the way, then like Buzz LightYear we will all be Space Cadets and move out ..."To Infinity and Beyond!"
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