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Space Tourism and Commercial Deep Space: Humans Going to and Beyond Low Earth Orbit

Space Tourism and Commercial Deep Space: Humans Going to and Beyond Low Earth Orbit

Dennis Meyer Bushnell
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781799867722|ISBN10: 1799867722|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799867739|EISBN13: 9781799867746
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2.ch019
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Bushnell, Dennis Meyer. "Space Tourism and Commercial Deep Space: Humans Going to and Beyond Low Earth Orbit." Technological Breakthroughs and Future Business Opportunities in Education, Health, and Outer Space, edited by Angus Hooke, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 281-290. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2.ch019

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Bushnell, D. M. (2021). Space Tourism and Commercial Deep Space: Humans Going to and Beyond Low Earth Orbit. In A. Hooke (Ed.), Technological Breakthroughs and Future Business Opportunities in Education, Health, and Outer Space (pp. 281-290). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2.ch019

Chicago

Bushnell, Dennis Meyer. "Space Tourism and Commercial Deep Space: Humans Going to and Beyond Low Earth Orbit." In Technological Breakthroughs and Future Business Opportunities in Education, Health, and Outer Space, edited by Angus Hooke, 281-290. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6772-2.ch019

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Abstract

After some 60 years of highly trained astronauts going into space, the related technologies and costs have altered to the point where increasing numbers of private citizens can become space tourists, initially suborbital for minimal times and Earth orbital for up to the order of two weeks. There has also developed a rapidly improving digital reality/immersive virtual presence technology providing space tourism experiences at minimal cost and available essentially to everyone. The safety aspects of physical space tourism need further development, but those that relate to the space environment are tolerable for a few weeks from the 60 years of manned space flight experience. As space tourism over the years expands beyond earth orbit to moon, Mars, asteroids, other planets, etc., the safety issues will need to be seriously worked. Tourism is only a portion of what will become major opportunities and expansion of commercial space beyond earth utilities into deep space, enabled by the ongoing major reductions in the costs of space access.

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