On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 14:45, David Weinshenker wrote:
> Seems like that's the key to making the "tourism" thing work commercially -
> you need a reasonably safe, controlled situation, and at the same time
> you want to find ways to give the clients a certain sense of risk and
> participation... (Let them fly some simple orbital maneuvers, but don't
> actually give them enough control authority to put the vehicle on a
> trajectory from which you don't have the maneuvering impulse to recover,
> for example?)
Something like that. Basically, there are two kinds of adventure
tourists. One kind really wants danger -- these are the guys who climb
Mt Everest, sail in single-handed around the world races, and go BASE
jumping. There aren't a whole lot of them, and they make poor repeat
customers. Short life spans and all.
The far more common type wants pretty much exactly what you are talking
about -- the simulacrum of danger without the reality. There are
enormous numbers of these ppl, since they are the ones who ride roller
coasters and the like. These are the ppl who will make the bread and
butter of any space tourism operation.
-p
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