#CommercialSpace: Space tourism and the Titan incident. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
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#CommercialSpace: Space tourism and the Titan incident. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/will-the-wreck-of-the-submersible-titan-and-the-death-of-its-five-passengers-impact-space-tourism/
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| 0:00.0 | I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it had to move |
| 0:05.1 | to make it happen, and for me, the Met presented endless opportunities. |
| 0:10.0 | From joining as a PC at age 23, I went into a variety of roles, from emergency response |
| 0:15.3 | to public order policing. |
| 0:17.6 | As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch, my dream job became reality. |
| 0:21.6 | Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where my career takes me next. |
| 0:25.9 | Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police Careers. |
| 0:55.9 | Connect with the Space Tourism Business, which itself has not gotten off to a Rolaking |
| 1:01.5 | start. |
| 1:02.5 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:03.5 | Good evening. |
| 1:04.5 | I don't agree about Space Tourism. |
| 1:05.5 | We've already had people up in orbit, multiple missions, and there's a real business going |
| 1:09.4 | on that. |
| 1:10.8 | But that effort to have tourism in space has inspired a lot of other people to do tourism, |
| 1:20.2 | cutting edge, pushing the envelope tourism in other places, such as the Antelope. |
| 1:25.8 | The Arctic and high altitude balloons, and of course deep sea submersibles. |
| 1:33.4 | What we had is this tragedy in the last week of a deep sea tourism company, Ocean Gate |
| 1:39.0 | Expeditions, having its own submersible tight-call Titan. |
| 1:42.8 | Go down, take five T-form passengers deep on the water to look at the Titanic, and they |
| 1:48.2 | died. |
| 1:49.2 | It failed. |
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