Europe Eyes Space Tourism - by Lenard David
The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching in the coming weeks a study aimed at European space tourism initiatives. ESA wants to survey and evaluate the technical and economical feasibility of on-going European initiatives for privately-funded crew vehicles for commercial human space flight and to assess associated technologies. This survey of European privately-funded vehicles for commercial human space flight is focused mainly on suborbital space tourism applications. However, ESA officials are also open to orbital concept proposals.
The survey work could lead to ESA awarding up to three contracts to flesh out space tourism concepts and associated business cases.
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