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AssassinsMace said:
How long will it take to hear because of this somehow China has to stop its entire space program as if China lost some race to do this like what happened with reusable rockets?
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KYli said:
It is just a fad for the wealthy. Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk will milk as much money as possible out of this. Real space tourism is still decades away.
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avatar1234 said:
Neither. Richard Branson went on this one. Bezos will be going later on a rocket of his own. Possibly for a true orbital flight.
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I believe Bezos's rocket will go straight up, hover, and come straight back down to Earth.


Space tourism was started by the Russian way back then with stays in the ISS. The Russian had to stop it when the ISS crew size increased and more serious business took priority.

Seems like they are going to have a go at it again soon, packaged with a Spacewalk.

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The CSS is probably too small for space tourists, unless they decide to construct the backup modules up as well to get the 6 module configuration. My understanding is shenzhou/soyuz flights cost around ~$100 million, so with one passenger paying $50 million how do these things even make money?
 
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j17wang said:
The CSS is probably too small for space tourists, unless they decide to construct the backup modules up as well to get the 6 module configuration. My understanding is shenzhou/soyuz flights cost around ~$100 million, so with one passenger paying $50 million how do these things even make money?
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ISS. I just read that the Russian is going to send up the last ISS space station module. So there is going to be even more space on ISS.
 
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KYli said:
The FAA has provided China with technical briefings about the work [on recertifying the 737MAX], according to the people.

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The U.S. is “absolutely working on” pushing China to move on the Max, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said last month in an interview on Bloomberg Television.
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The FAA certified years ago that the 737MAX was safe to fly.
Then hundreds of people died in two crashes.
Why should anyone trust the FAA now?
 
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