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Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure

Published:	17 July 2003
Author:	Patrick Collins
Origin:	Invited speech to the AIAA/ICAS Symposium 'The Next 100 Years' in honour of the Wright Brothers' first flight
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Abstract:	During its first century, aviation has grown from the Wright brothers' tiny "Flyer" to become a globe-spanning activity which has changed the world we live in. However, after more than 40 years, space travel remains very different from aviation: whereas air travel is a huge, privately operated activity as it started, thanks to the Wright brothers space travel remains a government monopoly activity as it started, in the USSR back in 1961. The paper reviews the research to date concerning the feasi-bility of commercial passenger space travel services. Based on market research showing enormous potential demand, engineers have prepared conceptual designs of passenger vehicles, and have reached consensus that a passenger vehicle capable of regular flights to and from low Earth orbit could be developed for less than the amount that G7 governments' space agencies spend every year. With such a development, tourism could grow to become the largest activity in space, leading to a genuine "aerospace" industry and a renaissance of space activities. However, this requires civilian space activities to change to follow the economically successful model of aviation centred on com-mercially operated passenger travel services.
References:	Meeting the Needs of the New Millennium: Passenger Space Travel and World Economic Growth Potential Economic Implications of the Development of Space Tourism Space Tourism Could Drive Space Development Potential demand for passenger travel to orbit Demand for Space Tourism in America and Japan, and its Implications for Future Space Activities The Prospects for Space Tourism: Investigation on the Economic and Technological Feasibility of Commercial Passenger Transport into Low Earth Orbit Economically Viable Public Space Travel Researching the Space Tourism Market Space Transportation Market Demand, 2010-2030 Analysis of Space Concepts Enabled by New Transportation Commercial Space Transportation Study Space News Towards Traffic Control Systems for Near-Earth Space History of the Phoenix VTOL SSTO and Recent Developments in Single-Stage Launch Systems A Cost Engineered Launch Vehicle for Space Tourism Status Report on Space Tour Vehicle Kankoh-Maru of Japanese Rocket Society Spaceflight Revolution Space Tourism Optimized Reusable Spaceplane Design Tourism Cost Realities Space Activities, Space Tourism and Economic Growth Space Hotels: Civil Engineering's New Frontier Journal of Aerospace Engineering Aviation Week and Space Technology Collaboration with Aviation: The Key to Commercialisation of Space Activities The Cost to Taxpayers of Governments' Anti-Space Tourism Policy and Prospects for Improvement Public Choice Economics and Space Policy: Realising Space Tourism Space Tourism: A Remedy for 'Crisis in Aerospace' Acta Astronautica
Referred to by:	Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure The Future of Lunar Tourism Space Tourism Market Demand and the Transportation Infrastructure Space Tourism: Recent Progress and Future Prospects

Related Entries:	Yuri Gagarin Dennis Tito Smith IAF Congress Kraft Ehricke General Public Space Travel and Tourism Volume 1 - Executive Summary Japan Aeronautical Association National Aerospace Laboratory Kelly Space & Technology Federal Aviation Administration Kankoh-Maru Spacecab Spacebus Phoenix Beta HTOL VTOL International Space Station Pacific American Launch Systems Bristol Spaceplanes Boeing Space Systems Japanese Rocket Society Slide Rule: The Autobiography of an Engineer Advances in the Astronautical Sciences HMX Inc. Growing Popular Interest in Space Tourism: Challenge and Opportunity for Space Agencies
Keywords:	Tourism