Just saw a thing off of MSN today that indicated Boeing was proposing
to add a "non-astronaut" habitation module to Freedom station in order
to allow commercial travellers to have accomodation.
Freedom will certainly cost a lot of money and not achieve the potential it
could have with some more forward thinking design (it shows that it was
designed by committee) but for all that, it is pretty cool to think of.
And Boeing is working on being one of the first MegaCorps into space.
(Tell me, will GigaCorps eventually succeed MegaCorps, then later TeraCorps?)
Did they say how much it was going to cost to be a "space tourist"?
Donald Hosford
> kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca wrote:
> Just saw a thing off of MSN today that indicated Boeing was proposing
I believe a major key to space exploration would be to designate space as a
"tax free" zone, allow any company(s) that produce or manufacture
in space all profits would be exempt from Federal/state/local taxes.
Time to make it worth while to go to space.
> Donald Hosford wrote:
> David wrote:
> I believe a major key to space exploration would be to designate space
What a really neat way to get companies to support the space station. This way
NASA can better ride out the budget cuts.
I am gonna have to start saving my pennies...
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, David wrote:
> I believe a major key to space exploration would be to designate space
Tax free! Hey, somebody book me a flight to Mars!
Although I am certainly all for private expansion into space, I think that
there are going to be few problems when the issue of property rights comes
into play. The UN's Moon and Space treaties have declared that celistrial
bodies like the moon, the planets and the asteriods are "the communal property
of mankind." Our 21st century asteriod prospectors, hoping to make a fortune
of the vast mineral and water resources of the Belt may find that the cost of
dealing with the UN will outweigh the potential profit that their enterprise
may bring to them.
Hmmmmm... This would make for an interesting FT scenario now that we have UN
ships.
Later,
Laws can be changed.....
> Mark A. Siefert: LORD OF ALL EVIL! wrote: