There have been a lot of studies about space tourism done in Europe. Flight International has a listing today. Here are a couple:
Future High-Altitude Flight – an Attractive Commercial Niche? was a 12-month, €127,000 ($170,000) European Union Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project that ended in October 2007. It concluded that a European air-launched suborbital tourism vehicle was feasible and made technical recommendations.
In 2007 the Survey of European Privately-Funded Vehicles for Commercial Human Space Flight was a €150,000 European Space Agency project that examined UK space tourism company Starchaser Industries as an example of entrepreneurial suborbital operators.
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Here’s a excellent opportunity for you to get up to date space news and information right on your desktop: the Space Info Toolbar . If at any time you see a yellow warning bar across the top of your browser asking you to confirm installation, click on “Allow.”
You can click on the toolbar to get immediate access to up-to-date space news and commentary from many spaces news sources and blogs – the toolbar also has an optional email notifier, weather reports and a built in Internet radio that works great (I’m listening to NPR as I write).
Easy install – so try it out now. Need more information? Watch this 5 minute video I made about the Space Info Toolbar . (Please wait a moment for the video to load when the new window opens).
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