Welcome to the Yahoo Space Travel Bureau forum.
We can use this as a gathering place for ideas and
a place to post the latest news, rumors or
speculation about what is happening in the field
of space tourism.
In a very good policy article, Ronald P. Menich, Ph.D. discusses the need to have redundant launch vehicles, with the requirement that payload size be kept
FYI, "After 5 Years, Space Tourism a Work in Progress" Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091003/ap_on_re_us/us_space_tourism_1 ... Mark Reiff
All government space agencies must change to survive. In Malaysia, there are 2 major passenger air carriers; the government owned MAS (Malaysia Airline System)
These agencies are very good in the fields of pure science and exploration. However, private industry will eventually provide most, if not all, human space