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It's a pastime in the same sense as having a 414 foot yacht. It provides personal amusement, and it is a great status signal. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bills
by Merrill 7y ago
It's a pastime in the same sense as having a 414 foot yacht. It provides personal amusement, and it is a great status signal. https://www.forbes.com/sites/billspringer/2019/09/04/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allens-414-foot-long-explorer-yacht-octopus-is-for-sale/#ab26e40d815d https://www.forbes.com/sites/billspringer/2019/09/04/microso...
- mdorazio 7y agoWait, wtf. Do you honestly think only rich people are going to space? You know we have highly accomplished people called astronauts and cosmonauts doing scientific research, right?
- Merrill 7y agoScientific research is not the objective of higher volume space tourism as planned by Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and others. Virgin apparently sold over 700 tickets at $200K or more each for suborbital flights. Tourism to ISS is temporarily suspended due to Soyuz being the only spacecraft able to transport the astronauts and cosmonauts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism
- natch 7y agoThe words "tourism" and "tourist" do not even occur in the article.