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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Joy rides
Message-ID: <357@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 17:53:39 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.357
Posted: Mon Jan 27 17:53:39 1986
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>> [ discussing joyrides in the shuttle ]  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?  [...]  In
>> my opinion $10 per ticket would make it as popular as Disneyland,
>> and $100 would cause most people to forget it.
> Are you seriously implying that most people would turn down a chance to
> go to space even if it cost 100 dollars?  Personally,  I think there
> are many people who would think money was no object, they would
> pay more just to get a chance for a ride.  People already
> pay 100s of dollars for short plane trips

     I  think  your  analogy  with   planes  is  stretched   (charitably
speaking).   I pay $200 for a plane  trip  not for the trip,  but to get
from  point  A  to  point  B.  The  trip  itself  usually  is  not  even
particularly enjoyable.

     There  would  probably be  a brief spate of  people willing  to pay
whatever  it takes, tapering off to a trickle.  In a decade  or two such
trips  will be as commonplace and boring  as plane rides are now.    (My
prediction only!)
-- 
					der Mouse

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