Re: Space Tourism causing trash in space

From: EAC (digicross_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: 9 Aug 2004 06:27:27 -0700

echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu (Eric Chomko) wrote in message news:<ce5t3u$8n4$1@news.ums.edu>...
> > Now, how far are we going to go regarding the trash and space waste
> > created by the new space tourism industry? Is there even a consideration
> > for it at this point or will it take some sort of travesty to wake people
> > up to the fact that space like the earth can't just keep absorbing our
> > clutter indefintely.

Explorer8939@yahoo.com (Explorer8939) wrote in message news:<64c0d119.0408081131.168656a4@posting.google.com>...
> 1) How much space clutter did the SpaceShip One flight cause?

All of those smoke trails caused by the combustion of SpaceShip One's
engine.

> 2) Assuming orbital tourism, what is the expected on orbit lifetime of
> any trash thrown out the airlock by a tourist for a flight to, say,
> 300 km?

Probably less than the amount of time the I.S.S. took for it to come
crashing down to Earth if it wasn't reboosted, considering that the
I.S.S. is in a 400 Km orbit. It should be noted a BB pellet orbiting
the Earth is more lethal than any bullet fired from a gun on Earth.

Forget tourist polluting the local enviroment, there's even a more
important matter, what would space tourism do to the local community?

If there are space tourists on the moon, what are the effects they
will caused on the moon community? Will they cause negative things?

But then again, maybe that's the reason on why Armstrong and Aldrin
got scolded in the first place.

Now, why we are on the subject of space tourism, lets talk about what
happen if the space tourist industry got damaged heavily?

Lets say that in the future there are plenty of space colonies, and
some of these space colonies devoted themself to space tourism.

Lets say that somehow the Earth government issued a travel warning
urging on how Earth citizen to defer all non essential travels to
space because they could get blown up and other nasty stuff (though
the percentage of this happening is less than one percent).

Wouldn't that affect the space colonies in a negative way? Especially
those who have pretty much devoted themself to tourism.

Could it be that all of those travel warnings to space are issued
because the Earth government (either acting on its own or just being a
proxy) using its political muscles to weaken the space colonies'
economies?

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