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Space Adventures planning for lunar tourism

Boing Boing - Jan 25, 2012
Air & Space Magazine profiles Anderson and tells what it took to launch the space tourism business. The next space adventure he hopes to offer is a flyby of the moon. Check out the commercial above. Tickets are just $150 million each.

Last man on moon, other space leaders backing Romney

msnbc.com - Jan 28, 2012
Players in the commercial space industry, including Eric Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer of space tourism firm Space Adventures; and Mark Albrecht, chairman of the board of satellite communications provider USSpace, also signed the ...

Plan for space vacation not so crazy after all

Orlando Sentinel - Jan 23, 2012
You've probably read about space tourism and you're going to be reading about it a lot more. Sir Branson, himself, the public face of space company Virgin Galactic, says he and the family may take a little space jaunt within the next year.

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Space Tourism books

On the Origin of the Species homo touristicus: The Evolution of Travel from Greek Spas to Space Tourism

by: William D. Chalmers

A stunningly well-researched book, offering readers an authentically fresh and at times wickedly off -the-beaten path irreverent look at travel history and the evolution of homo touristicus. This insightful book takes you on a Grand Tour full of fun and interesting nuggets about travel- the past, the present, and soon to be future, that is sure to make you laugh, make you think, and keep you reading. Just perusing the Table of Contents whets your appetite for more. This multi-disciplinary look at the travel and tourism industry-and we travelers who make it all happen-includes: the age of discovery, world wonders, tourist novelties, the paths of pilgrims, travel safety and security, travel literature, geography and mapmaking, Grand Hotels, the technology of travel, travel industry porn and public relations campaigns, mysterious liaisons, and affairs to remember, along with great travel quotes and culturally relevant tourism-related anecdotes.
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The Space Tourist's Handbook

by: Eric C. Anderson, Joshua Piven
Your Guide to the Final Frontier
 
This illustrated handbook features everything you need to know about space tourism—from travel-planning tips to life-or-death survival skills. You’ll discover:
 
•  The Best Itineraries
Take stunning photographs of planet Earth—from sixty miles up. Dance on the ceiling in zero-gravitynenvironments. Take a “shower” using nothing but baby wipes. As a space tourist, you’ll enjoy all of these activities and plenty more.

•  The Best Destinations.
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Space Island Group is planning to build a large wheel type space station using empty shuttle fuel tanks.

 

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Space Tourism Turns Ten

Miles O'Brien reports on the 10th anniversary of Dennis Tito's historic flight to the International Space Station, via Space Adventures, ushering in the era of space tourism. Related blog post: milesobrien.com High resolution file available for download: tinyurl.com

 

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Richard Branson on space tourism

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson talks to CNN about his plan for space tourism.

 

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Space tourism - a snip at $US 200000

A new experimental Spaceship Two craft may make space tourism more accessible. It has been developed by Virgin, the company of British billionaire Richard Branson. He is offering the cosmic flights for $US 200000 and tickets are selling well. Some 85000 applications have already been filled in, including eleven from Russia.

 

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Space Tourism

After initial successes in space, many people saw intensive space exploration as inevitable. In the minds of many people, such exploration was symbolized by wide public access to space, mostly in the form of space tourism. Those aspirations are best remembered in science fiction works (and one children's book), such as Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust and also 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Joanna Russ's 1968 novel Picnic on Paradise, and Larry Niven's Known Space stories. Lucian in 2 AD in his book True History examines the idea of a crew of men whose ship travels to the Moon during a storm. Jules Verne also took up the theme of lunar visits in his books, From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. Robert A. Heinlein's short story The Menace from Earth, published in 1957, was one of the first to incorporate elements of a developed space tourism industry within its framework. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was common belief that space hotels would be launched by 2000. Many futurologists around the middle of the 20th century speculated that the average family of the early 21st century would be able to enjoy a holiday on the Moon.