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Posted by blart on September 13, 2005, 4:25 am
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So who is going to be the first to use a Falcon 9, in conjunction with
apollo (or soyuz!) capsule, to get space tourism off the ground?
Costs are approx 30M per flight, for 9.5 tonnes (21000lbs)
The heavy can get 25 tonnes (55000lbs) into leo for ~40M ?
Surely this is enough lift capacity for a scaled composites style reuseable,
or a rocketplane style 'lear jet' with nonreuseable abalative heat shield
(phenolic? balsa wood???) With 40 paying customers the flight has paid for
itself at 1M apiece.
cheers
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Posted by Brian Gaff on September 13, 2005, 10:12 am
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I'd imagine advertisers might be the first customers of this at the price,
it would certainly be competitive as far as advertising budgets go!
Send a banner into space, anyone? Pepsi? Coca-Cola?
:-)
Brian
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> So who is going to be the first to use a Falcon 9, in conjunction with
> apollo (or soyuz!) capsule, to get space tourism off the ground?
> Costs are approx 30M per flight, for 9.5 tonnes (21000lbs)
> The heavy can get 25 tonnes (55000lbs) into leo for ~40M ?
> Surely this is enough lift capacity for a scaled composites style
> reuseable, or a rocketplane style 'lear jet' with nonreuseable abalative
> heat shield (phenolic? balsa wood???) With 40 paying customers the flight
> has paid for itself at 1M apiece.
> cheers
>
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Posted by JazzMan on September 13, 2005, 7:46 pm
Please log in for more thread options blart wrote:
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> So who is going to be the first to use a Falcon 9, in conjunction with
> apollo (or soyuz!) capsule, to get space tourism off the ground?
>
> Costs are approx 30M per flight, for 9.5 tonnes (21000lbs)
> The heavy can get 25 tonnes (55000lbs) into leo for ~40M ?
>
> Surely this is enough lift capacity for a scaled composites style reuseable,
> or a rocketplane style 'lear jet' with nonreuseable abalative heat shield
> (phenolic? balsa wood???) With 40 paying customers the flight has paid for
> itself at 1M apiece.
>
> cheers
I seriously doubt that this price is for a man-rated version.
JazzMan
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Posted by blart on September 14, 2005, 2:43 am
Please log in for more thread options The price(s) is(are) for ~10 tonnes, or 25 tonnes.
No mention of what you do with those tonnes ;)
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> blart wrote:
>> So who is going to be the first to use a Falcon 9, in conjunction with
>> apollo (or soyuz!) capsule, to get space tourism off the ground?
>> Costs are approx 30M per flight, for 9.5 tonnes (21000lbs)
>> The heavy can get 25 tonnes (55000lbs) into leo for ~40M ?
>> Surely this is enough lift capacity for a scaled composites style
>> reuseable,
>> or a rocketplane style 'lear jet' with nonreuseable abalative heat shield
>> (phenolic? balsa wood???) With 40 paying customers the flight has paid
>> for
>> itself at 1M apiece.
>> cheers
> I seriously doubt that this price is for a man-rated version.
> JazzMan
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Posted by JazzMan on September 13, 2005, 10:34 pm
Please log in for more thread options That's an interesting question. Liability insurance costs aside
for launching a person on a non-man rated rocket, are these things
regulated? Does a company have to get a permit to launch something
to orbit? I assume if so it varies from country to country as to
the details. Do the astronaughts have to get a special endorsement
on their FL driver's licenses? LOL!
JazzMan
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> The price(s) is(are) for ~10 tonnes, or 25 tonnes.
> No mention of what you do with those tonnes ;)
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> > blart wrote:
> >> So who is going to be the first to use a Falcon 9, in conjunction with
> >> apollo (or soyuz!) capsule, to get space tourism off the ground?
> >> Costs are approx 30M per flight, for 9.5 tonnes (21000lbs)
> >> The heavy can get 25 tonnes (55000lbs) into leo for ~40M ?
> >> Surely this is enough lift capacity for a scaled composites style
> >> reuseable,
> >> or a rocketplane style 'lear jet' with nonreuseable abalative heat shield
> >> (phenolic? balsa wood???) With 40 paying customers the flight has paid
> >> for
> >> itself at 1M apiece.
> >> cheers
> > I seriously doubt that this price is for a man-rated version.
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> apollo (or soyuz!) capsule, to get space tourism off the ground?
> Costs are approx 30M per flight, for 9.5 tonnes (21000lbs)
> The heavy can get 25 tonnes (55000lbs) into leo for ~40M ?
> Surely this is enough lift capacity for a scaled composites style
> reuseable, or a rocketplane style 'lear jet' with nonreuseable abalative
> heat shield (phenolic? balsa wood???) With 40 paying customers the flight
> has paid for itself at 1M apiece.
> cheers
>