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Commercialization

Anti-Space Tourism Defeatism From ESA Alumni

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 18, 2009
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Space Tourism is a Hoax, editorial, Fredrick Engstrom and Heinz Pfeffer, Space News
“Some proponents of suborbital spaceflight will say that their device prepares for orbital space tourism. From the above it should be clear that doing a hop into space, suborbitally, is not a precursor to orbital flight and has nothing to do with reaching orbital speed and then decelerating to return to Earth. To conclude, commercially balanced space tourism is neither for today, nor tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow.”
Keith’s note: It is quite clear that ESA’s Launcher Office is very good at breeding arrogant, anti-commercial space defeatists.

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