Countdown to space tourism

[BarriosGroupie]

what a bunch of clueless clowns

[fiofodiveia]

ahhhh I wanted so much to use this for my class this afternoon but I bet the whole 20 million necessary for space tourism nowadays that my ss would find it hard to understand the funny chubby guy with a moustache right from the start and immediately lose interest in the rest of the video!! Fuck it!! Why can't they understand???

[epit0me]

lol @ the advertisements everywhere

[alfieandjoshie]

that one you saw at 0:45 was called nova and was the best rocket that starchaser has let of

[aylenlake17]

that's cool space tourism 

[GeekMatrix]

Did he say hydrogen peroxide rocket ship ?

[SVBarnard]

I am sorry to say but star chaser is going to be left in the dust by companies like Virgin Galactic which are going to be taking customers in to suborbit by 2011 and eventually to LEO and beyond. Then you have Space X and all these other companies that are going to leave Star Chaser behind in the dust. Don't be surprised if Star Chaser ends up going bankrupt in the long run cause they wont be able to keep up with the competition. But one thing is for sure and that is space tourism will happen

[goodyears73]

I talked with my father: 40 years ago space seemed just round the corner ... then things slowed down but our future is there.

Private entrapreneurs will bring people in space, not public agencies ...come on ..space is not far: only 1 hr out of your town, if your car could go upward :-))

[thecellarlife]

sounds like the spins, just drink a lot and you're there.

[7Row7enn7]

I wouldn't mind paying 20k for a suborbital spaceflight... Equivelently (and based on SpaceAdventure's price), a trip to the moon in 2018 by private citizens would coust roughly 20milion US Dollars (based on the current worth of U.S. currency)

[dom3792]

I work with this guy, and his plans are spot on, his data and graphs are on track, and this is only the begining

[muddyknees]

this guy is wasting his money, I hope hes planning further ahead than just sub-orbital flights..........the market is gonna move pas sub-orbital so fast its not even gonna be funny. theres gonna be hotels up there before too long. this guy's talkin about a few minutes of constrained weightlessness..........hope he's thinkin of being the low end of the market

[eventrim]

Your right mate Im there but room to move or even longer time would be better

Still sounds cool

I can just tell ill be wanting more straight after though

[hughlooks]

He's right about the prices coming atronomically down after a few years. Especially when competition starts to heat up for your business. If you are fairly young, or more like in pretty good health, and you have a lot of money to spend (not neccessarily $10,000 a shot) then the chances of yourself being able to go to outerspace (into the Thermosphere, where the space shuttle hangs out) are greatly improved. Consider yourself extremely lucky. LOL

[M3tabolic]

oh great. yet another reason to remortgage the house.

[7Row7enn7]

Lol.

[nobogroll]

hang on this fella looks like are gay postman

[blazintraffic]

"There will be deaths and injuries..."

I think this is one fad I'd rather not be an early adopter of!

[ladybard1968]

I wanna go in space.

[GmodPlusWoW]

Once that kind of stuff is up and rolling, they'll be doing commercial moon landings for £90,000 or so. And i'll introduce my wormhole refractor into space exploration. I will open the way for the dawn of the fisrt Interstellar Human Empire.

[t43562]

The rich pave the way for all of us. That happened with flight and it happens in all other aspects of life.

[KigurumiAlice]

5 year is very close. To good to be true, next step startrek

[adonis1077]

hm. yeah. 'Cause the "ordinary" person makes well over £98,000. So He could afford it couldn't he? if i save up now .. no when im 98 i probly still wont ave enough.

[Jamex06]

brb lemme just get 98k...

[cheesedie]

risky as hell what if the safety parashoot snaps off and the emergency one does too, then your fucked, lots could happen lol

[3Deity]

I love the idea, however:

The western stock market will crash soon

We are not wanted up there

We have bigger problems down here to solve.

[Bhong666]

I don't with you on the stock market situation but we definitely have bigger problems on land!

[MoveToDecaf]

"We're not wanted up there" ?

What are you on about? Not wanted by whom? Aliens?!

Leaving this lump of rock behind us is the only viable long-term survival strategy for humanity. As this all seems to be left in the hands of hobbyists for the moment, we should be encouraging them, not coming out with nonsense like "we're not wanted up there".

[damianpoirier]

Aye, some of us actually believe it's hamanity's duty to earth to seed the galaxy with Gaia's children. We are the first (perhaps eclusive) earthlifeform capable. If not us, who? Do you think any of anything will matter ever if it all goes up in a puff of nova flotsam?

[narkedoff]

underfunded as in the30s, dont hod your breath kidda.

[FredSpade]

Great.. Just as we are trying to reduce the masses' selfish desire for air travel on a whim, now they're going to be messing up the environment with space tourism.. I wonder what the carbon footprint will be for that.

[snafutube]

so who exactly are the 'we' that you allude to & presumably consider yourself a part of? the exclusive club that wants jam free travel for the wealthy elite?

[FredSpade]

What is "jam free travel" supposed to mean? And you are missing my point. I don't give a toss about the rich. Space tourism at the expense of the environment is selfish and short-sighted no matter who is doing it.

[CrazyCrisUk]

lol, I thought this was called "A countdown to space terrorism".

Insurgents launch new attack from the moon, lol.

[damianpoirier]

um yes, yup that's right, and nanotech too and telephones and shampoo and wtf are you on?

[LeonLok]

Yay, lets go beat up Aliens!!!

[jcng5]

it is not going to work.....how many people can withstand high G-force without blacking out?

[martialdrake]

It will be interesting to see if private space travel can make space open to the wider population rather than an elite. I hope ideas like the space elevator get of the drawing board within my life time.

[mistaspot1]

Wow, exciting. I'm going.

[satansandals]

3:22 wow looks like a v3 rocket back from red alert 2 *memories* £98k urm no thanx doesnt look that good "theres not enough room to float around" but to see the curvature of the earth plus space would be kool, phaps sumday.

[JohnDeBunkTest]

It is time for private space flight.

[PolliFaxToaster]

im so glad this will happen in my lifetime. what a great incentive to push governments into space exploration as well.

[Abbie2020]

I'm not sure I'll be remortgaging my house to go into space but it's a cool idea!

[interhuss]

How cool!