Re: Is Virgin Galactic for Real?



Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

How many of YOUR friends can brag they've been to space?



The ones that did too much LDS at Berkeley?
Seriously, if space tourism catches on it has the seeds of its own destruction built right in. At the moment it is a very, very, rare thing to meet someone who has been into space; but after the first thousand space tourists or so, that won't be the case, and it will lose its cachet.

Pat
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