Space Tourism … and Much More
SmartPlanet.com has a Q&A with Space Adventures Eric Anderson focused on the Virginia-based company’s plans for circum-lunar space tourism flights. The missions are still on the books, apparently. Which books? That’s a good question.
Continue reading ‘Anderson: Still Working on That Circumlunar Space Tourism Thingy’
Google co-founder Sergey Brin aboard a Space Adventures microgravity flight.
Vacation In Space? It’s Possible … For The Rich
NPR
“It’s really been a lack of competition,” says Eric Anderson, who heads a company called Space Adventures.
He adds that during the space race with the Soviet Union, the technology involved in spaceflight was practically a state secret.
Continue reading ‘Space Adventures Eric Anderson Bemoans Monopolies’
PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator: Gary Martin, NASA Ames Director of the New Ventures and Communications Directorate
Panelists:
Peter Diamandis - ISU, SU, Zero-G
Gary Hudson - CEO, AirLaunch LLC; Co-founder, t/Space
Eric Anderson - CEO, Space Adventures
Continue reading ‘ISU Entrepreneur Panel at NASA Ames’
Millionaut Richard Garriott aboard the International Space Station with five other lesser known professional space travelers.
Geeks in Space
The Big Money
“There’s a documentary called Orphans of Apollo that’s stated this well,” [Richard Garriott] explained. “There’s a generation of us, who are the tech leaders of today, who were universally inspired to go into science and technology because of the NASA Lunar Space Program. And the reason the movie is called Orphans of Apollo is because, in many ways, we feel orphaned by the fact that the space industry has not done a good job of capitalizing on that momentum of what many of us believed were the first steps into space, carrying the mission of human space flight farther and farther into deep space.”
Continue reading ‘Why Tech Geeks are Space Cadets’
HalogenLife has an interview with Eric Anderson in which the Space Adventures CEO discusses the prospects for orbital space travel. Anderson believes costs will come down to a point where most people will be able to go. Alas, it may not happen in the (average) lifetime of anyone say, over 35 or 40.
Continue reading ‘Eric Anderson: Space Travel for All By 2050 (Maybe)’
Super-rich still want to boldly go into space
Reuters
The economic downturn has not dampened rich people’s enthusiasm for space tourism, the world’s first commercial space flight company says.
Continue reading ‘Rich Still Escaping Global Meltdown by Blasting Into Space’
To Space [Tourism] and Beyond
The National
“Two things are guaranteed to capture the imagination of children, according to Eric Anderson: space and dinosaurs. And one of the two will become a lot more important in the coming decades.
“The age of considering children naive for dreaming of becoming an astronaut is coming to an end. When reaching adulthood, a child born today will enter a world where the commercial exploration of space is a trillion-dollar business employing millions of people.
“If things go to plan, they could get a job with Space Adventures, the company Mr [Eric] Anderson founded in 1998. He hopes to see it become a service provider to government and commercial space programmes around the world, while also turning a lucrative trade in taking people to the moon and beyond.”
Space the final tourism frontier
The National
Humanity must explore space not only to capitalise on huge economic opportunities, said Eric Anderson, the chief executive of Space Adventures. Our innate desire to explore means we should do it anyway.
“Decades from now, we will need to bring the resources of the solar system into our economic sphere of influence,” he told delegates to the Global Space Technology Forum being held in Abu Dhabi this week. “We need to colonise other planets.”
And Earth’s history, marked by catastrophic events that have reshaped the path of life itself, makes space exploration an even more pressing necessity. “These events will happen again,” Mr Anderson said, “and it is a prime reason why we as humans need to become a multi-planet species. To ensure our long-term survival, humans need to have more than one home.”
Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson and space tourist spaceflight participant astronaut millionaut Anousheh Ansari will be among those promoting civilian spaceflight during the Global Space Technology Forum in Abu Dhabi from November 16-18.
Zawya.com quotes Anderson as being bullish on space tourism. “The momentum is building for space tourism, we’ve turned a corner and proven that a market exists for space tourism. Space was previously controlled by a small number of governments, and it’s now opening up to the private sector. There’s been a paradigm shift and we’re moving into an era of personal space flight.”
Continue reading ‘Anderson, Ansari to Promote Space Tourism in Abu Dhabi’
Todayonline.com reports that Virgin Galactic may be looking at Singapore as a possible base for its suborbital tourism business within the next five years.
This move could pose a challenge for Space Adventures, which announced plans to build a spaceport in Singapore back two years ago. However, the Virginia-based company has only raised about half the funding for the facility, according to CEO Eric Anderson. He said the company hopes to raise the remainder of the funding by year’s end.
New Mexico Spaceport Authority Seeks Deputy Director
NMSA PRESS RELEASE
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) is accepting applications for a Deputy Director to oversee the daily operations of Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport. This position announcement marks another significant milestone as the historic project transitions from a construction site to an operating spaceport.
Wyle to Play Key Role in New FAA Commercial Space Transportation Center
WYLE PRESS RELEASE
Wyle is part of an academic-industry team that has been selected to support a new Federal Aviation Administration Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation.
The center is a partnership of academia, industry, and government, developed for the purpose of creating a world-class consortium that will address current and future [...]
Space Tourism Insurance Could Be Next Big Growth Area
Space Tourism Sector A Good Opportunity For Insurance Firms
Space Travel
As space tourism matures, it holds tremendous opportunity for insurance companies to offer risk coverage to those on-board, similar to what they do for passengers of airlines, industry officials said.
