[Moonbase-discuss] Space Tourism Club: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

[Samuel Coniglio]

Thanks again, Randall, for adding fuel to the fire.  I made my 
initial email basic to get people's attention.  I did not want to 
make the email so huge with references that it would be overwhelming.

Sam




At 7:52 PM -0700 6/18/02, Randall Clague wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:07:51 -0700, Samuel Coniglio
><spaceman@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>The Yuri's Night event in San Francisco helped stir a number of great
>>discussions.  The most common one of them was this:
>>
>>"What can I do to get to outer space? "
>>
>>Well, if you are not a NASA astronaut or a multi-millionaire, it
>>seems you are out of luck.
>
>I'm sorry, Sam, I have to disagree - but you knew I would.  :-)
>
>>Fortunately, there are a series of
>>movements afoot to bring public space travel closer to a reality.
>
>There are also organizations - some companies, some non-profits, some
>somewhere in between - that are actively pursuing the goal of bring
>affordable space access to the people.  Among them are:
>
>XCOR Aerospace - www.xcor.com - a rocket engine startup company
>
>Armadillo Aerospace - www.armadilloaerospace.com - a hobbyist group
>organized as a startup company
>
>JP Aerospace - www.jpaerospace.com - formerly hobbyists, now semi-pro
>
>Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society - www.erps.org - non-profit
>amateurs based in San Jose
>
>Government won't get us out there, so we have to do it ourselves.
>There's no one solution.  Sam's Space Tourism Club is one approach;
>the above organizations offer another, complementary approach.
>
>Disclaimer: I'm the VP of ERPS, so I may be a bit biased.  :-)
>
>-R
>
>--
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>but only the beginning."
>                      -- Jeff Greason

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