Space Tourism
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>In article <4bamj8$f...@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>,
>cia...@ix.netcom.com(WAYNE JOHNSON) wrote:
>[Edward V. Wright writes:
>[
>[>How many movie stars have died in plane crashes? They still travel in
>[>airplanes.
>
>[A good parallel is the idea that we should allow tourist rides on the
>[SR-71 - a thrill ride to the edge of space.
>
>You must not have heard of the movie "Apollo 13." Ron Howard shot all the
>zero-gee scenes aboard the Vomit Comet. The movie company had to pay
expenses.
>
I thought the SR-71 was a *Really* fast jet called the Blackbird? The
Vomit-Comit is a 727? Not really a big point( unless you want to get there
quick.)
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or the Wrath of old ex-future astronauts.
Edward V. Wright
>[A good parallel is the idea that we should allow tourist rides on the
>[SR-71 - a thrill ride to the edge of space.
>
>You must not have heard of the movie "Apollo 13." Ron Howard shot all the
>zero-gee scenes aboard the Vomit Comet. The movie company had to pay expenses.
Actually, they didn't. The producers of Apollo 13 initially contracted with a
private company that offers zero-gee flights in their commercial jetliner. NASA
heard about this and got very offended, so they offered the studio a better deal
-- free. Prior to the Challenger accident, they did the same thing with
commercial competitors to the Space Shuttle -- they would take any loss to
undercut the competition.
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Cecil Rose
>In article <E704wwUN...@sedona.net>, kei...@sedona.net says...
>>[A good parallel is the idea that we should allow tourist rides on the
>>[SR-71 - a thrill ride to the edge of space.
>>
>>You must not have heard of the movie "Apollo 13." Ron Howard shot all the
>>zero-gee scenes aboard the Vomit Comet. The movie company had to pay expenses.
>Actually, they didn't. The producers of Apollo 13 initially contracted with a
>private company that offers zero-gee flights in their commercial jetliner. NASA
>heard about this and got very offended, so they offered the studio a better deal
>-- free. Prior to the Challenger accident, they did the same thing with
>commercial competitors to the Space Shuttle -- they would take any loss to
>undercut the competition.
You gotta source for that? The article I read said they paid and paid
big.
Cecil Rose
ala...@earthlink.net
Carson, California
Cecil Rose
>In article <E704wwUN...@sedona.net>, kei...@sedona.net says...
>>
>>In article <4bamj8$f...@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>,
>>cia...@ix.netcom.com(WAYNE JOHNSON) wrote:
>>[Edward V. Wright writes:
>>[
>>[>How many movie stars have died in plane crashes? They still travel in
>>[>airplanes.
>>
>>[A good parallel is the idea that we should allow tourist rides on the
>>[SR-71 - a thrill ride to the edge of space.
>>
>>You must not have heard of the movie "Apollo 13." Ron Howard shot all the
>>zero-gee scenes aboard the Vomit Comet. The movie company had to pay
>expenses.
>>
>I thought the SR-71 was a *Really* fast jet called the Blackbird? The
>Vomit-Comit is a 727? Not really a big point( unless you want to get there
>quick.)
The VC is a Boeing 707 (or military C-135 version of it)
Keith Wood
edwr...@microsoft.com (Edward V. Wright) wrote:
[In article <E704wwUN...@sedona.net>, kei...@sedona.net says...
[>[A good parallel is the idea that we should allow tourist rides on the
[>[SR-71 - a thrill ride to the edge of space.
[>
[>You must not have heard of the movie "Apollo 13." Ron Howard shot all the
[>zero-gee scenes aboard the Vomit Comet. The movie company had to pay expenses.
[Actually, they didn't.
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>In article <4ccg4h$a...@news.microsoft.com>,
>edwr...@microsoft.com (Edward V. Wright) wrote:
>[In article <E704wwUN...@sedona.net>, kei...@sedona.net says...
>[
>[>[A good parallel is the idea that we should allow tourist rides on the
>[>[SR-71 - a thrill ride to the edge of space.
The only seat you could get (the back seat) doesn't have much of a view.
>[>
>[>You must not have heard of the movie "Apollo 13." Ron Howard shot all the
>[>zero-gee scenes aboard the Vomit Comet. The movie company had to pay
expenses.
>[
>[Actually, they didn't.
Many of the scenes WERE shot aboard the vomit comet, but many (especially in
the LM) were not. If you can see their breath, and it's a one- or two-shot, it was
done in the studio. If they're floating, it's on the comet.
cf "The Making of Apollo 13", and excellent reference on the program, as well
as the movie.
--David
Edward V. Wright
> You gotta source for that? The article I read said they paid and paid
>big.
I hear this from someone affiliated with Interglobal Spaceways, the company that wanted to
do the zero-gee flights for Apollo 13. They weren't too happy about it. It's possible, I
suppose, that someone within NASA offered to do the flights for free, then got overruled by
someone in NASA headquarters.