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From: julian@riacs.ARPA (Julian E. Gomez)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Joy rides
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Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 00:50:18 EST
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> We have now had two Congressmen take a joyride in the shuttle, and I'm sure
> that us lesser folk would like to enjoy one too. Supposing you could go into
> space.... not into orbit, but just out of the atmosphere for 10 minutes to an
> hour, how much would you be willing to pay? You'd experience zero G, the
> launch, the blackness of space, and really see the Earth. Would this be just as 
> hard (difficult, costly, etc) as achieving orbit? In my opinion $10 per ticket
> would make it as popular as Disneyland, and $100 would cause most people to
> forget it.

I'd sell my Macintosh for a ride on the shuttle!
(No :-] on this one, I'm serious! Really!)

-- 
"If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez  (ARPA: julian@riacs)
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