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Published: | February 2000 |
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Origin: | Proceedings of Space 2000, ASCE |
Abstract: | Over the past few years the general perception of space tourism has changed from being considered "science fiction" to becoming recognised as an important new target for the space industry. This change has been stimulated in part by the Space Tourism Study Program of the Japanese Rocket Society The importance of this result is that $12 billion is less than half of one year's funding of government space agencies today, and it is therefore readily affordable. The paper extrapolates the JRS |
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Keywords: | Tourism:Economics |