Tito Urges More Commercial Space Travel to Cape Audience
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"Tito Urges More Commercial Space Travel to Cape Audience"
Space.com/FLORIDA TODAY
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/tito_cape_030501.html
: The first paying tourist to the International Space Station is
: continuing his quest of space commercialization.
: Dennis Tito, a 62-year-old investor, told a packed ballroom at the
: 40th Space Congress here on Wednesday night that since his launch on
: a Russian Soyuz rocket, his new passion is to help others reach
: space.
: "I'd like to see thousands of people fly," Tito said.
: Although space trips like his are expensive, he said that for the
: price of an SUV in the next five years, it might be possible for
: people to take suborbital rides into space. Those flights, like the
: first Mercury flights, only will last a few minutes.
: "It really doesn't matter whether you spend a few minutes or eight
: days," Tito said. "It's all space."
: He cited the X Prize, a $10 million contest for the company that can
: build a suborbital space vehicle capable of launching people, as an
: example of the type of commercial initiate that will make space
: tourism possible.
: He attended the rollout of an X Prize vehicle, developed by Burt
: Rutan, last week.
: "Government allowing this development to happen -- I think this is
: really the biggest challenge," he said of the regulatory issues.
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