On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:39 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20041220215558.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/4pbur
"Question: What’s on the horizon in terms of future interests?
Answer: Well, I think I will spend a large percentage if not all of my main efforts for the rest of my career on manned-space travel. I think we can, if we do it right, be within 20 to 25 years of being able to visit hotels in orbit and many thousands of people being able to afford to do that. I would like to see affordable travel to the moon before I die, so I am starting relatively soon on developments for orbital-space tourism."
I believe it was Carl Sagan who thought space tourism was important to the survival of the species. His feeling was that the more people who saw how relatively small and fragile Earth was, the more would take interest in behaving prudently while on its surface.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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