Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcsp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!neth From: neth@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Joy rides Message-ID: <15800008@uiucdcsp> Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 14:55:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsp.15800008 Posted: Tue Jan 28 14:55:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jan-86 05:40:13 EST References: <8601222243.AA04061@s1-b.arpa> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:<8601222243.AA04061@s1-b.arpa>:-30:uiucdcsp:15800008:000:381 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!neth Jan 28 13:55:00 1986 I read in Money magazine the other day that a company is going to be offering trips in space sometime in 1990. Cost for 3-8 orbits (depending on mission) was ~$50,000! Of course, you also get two meals and 3 days of pre-flight training. The article read like they were going to build their own machine. I wonder how the recent tragedy of Challenger will impact this venture?