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- From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh 'K' Hopkins)
- Subject: Space Tourism
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:23:21 GMT
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-
- [responding to me..]
-
- >>That was the subject in mind. I agree on space tourism. Do you have any
- >>numbers to post though?
-
- >I don't know what the numbers were like, but I do know that business was
- >brisk when Society Expeditions was taking bookings for hoped-for Phoenix
- >orbital flights at $50k a head.
-
- Right. There was an Air & Space article on this a number of years ago. They
- also carried the original add in their first issue - quite an eyecatcher. As
- I recall there were something like 350 people who put down $500 deposits on a
- $52,000 flight. I think they were eventually refunded but I'm pretty sure
- that they were supposed to be non-refundable. So, if 350 people will pay
- $52,000 for a vehicle that isn't flying and isn't all that heavily advertised
- I think we can assume that this price will provide a big enough market for
- space tourism. The next question is how much higher it can get before the
- market dries up. Is there any other data out there? What's the maximum that
- real people pay for really cool Earth-bound trips? Anyone ever priced a trip
- to Antarctica?
- --
- Josh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- Ho^3 !=L
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