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New Study Supports Space Tourism


Washington, DC March 25, 1998 -
Space tourism has a potential to be a multi-million dollar business in the next decades, and U.S. national space policy should be modified to support its development, according to a new study to be released in Washington Wednesday, SpaceCast has learned. The two year study, sponsored by NASA and conducted by the Space Transportation Association of Arlington, Va. indicates a host of new measures and research can be conducted by both government and the private sector to support space tourism development.

The study's main recommendations include:

  • Modification of U.S. national space policy to encourage the creation of a large general public space travel and tourism business.
  • Focusing the U.S. Commerce Dept. on the coordination of space travel and tourism matters with the federal government.
  • Urging NASA to continue the research and development of new generations of reusable space vehicles, such as the X-33 and X-34 projects.
  • Move beyond the space station to determine design candidates for low cost, affordable housing systems and space platforms.
  • Use the nation's multi-billion $ per year space transportation budget "so as to allow rapid, and confident amortization of the cost of acquiring a first generation privately financed general public travel and tourism vehicle fleet".
  • Address longer term problems of launch site noise and atmospheric pollution in anticipation of greater future launching rates.
  • Strike a balance between public safety issues and space travel operations during early business development.
  • Institute a program to inform the nation on the steps being taken to open up space to the general public.
  • The U.S. commercial space industry should support the development of interest in developing new spacecraft that could accommodate tourism activities.
The report predicts that a successful space tourism industry will have been achieved when vehicles carrying 100,000 travelers to and from space each year are in commercial operation, a prospect that the study suggests is not decades into the future, but years, depending on how U.S. political and business leaders respond to what the study writers suggest is a large and pent up demand for the services.

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