#Bestof2021: Said William Gibson: “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." #HotelMars: A long line of tourists for Earth-orbit hotel rooms. David Livingston Spaceshow.com. Marcia Smith, SpacepolicyOnline.com (Originally posted May
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#Bestof2021: Said William Gibson: “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." #HotelMars: A long line of tourists for Earth-orbit hotel rooms. David Livingston Spaceshow.com. Marcia Smith, SpacepolicyOnline.com (Originally posted May 27, 2021)
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/space-tourism-hitting-its-stride/https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/space-tourism-hitting-its-stride/
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| 0:57.0 | of space tourism. This is monetizing earth orbit, suborbital, and we can believe this model |
| 1:05.6 | will work either whether you're on a hotel in orbit or you're on a hotel in orbit of |
| 1:11.6 | the moon or you're on the surface of the moon. For the next several hundred years, there |
| 1:16.0 | will be space tourism. If you have to ask the price, goes the proverb, you can't afford |
| 1:20.9 | it. So we're not worried about price. The idea that this is a thing is amazing. It seems |
| 1:26.6 | early, but Marsha, congratulations. Your wonderful neat sight lays everything out for me. |
| 1:32.4 | I want to start with the one detail we have that looks like an entirely commercial operation |
| 1:40.8 | using a dragon cruise spacecraft for earth orbit in September of this year's Inspiration |
| 1:48.2 | 4. What is that and what is unique about it? Good evening, Marsha. |
| 1:52.3 | Good evening and thanks so much for inviting me. Inspiration 4 is a mission that was created |
| 2:00.1 | by a very wealthy man named Jared Isaacman, who made a deal with another very wealthy man, |
| 2:04.9 | Elon Musk, who happens to own crew dragon and the Falcon rockets that launch them. He |
| 2:10.1 | decided to, he's always wanted to fly into space. He's not an astronaut. He's many things. |
| 2:16.4 | He's an entrepreneur and he flies jet pilot jet planes just for fun and he owns his own |
| 2:22.5 | mig. So he has a lot of experience piloting aircraft just as an amateur, but he's always |
| 2:29.5 | wanted to fly into space. So he purchased from Elon Musk the entire SpaceX crew dragon |
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