Just build a rocket and go, simple as that. How hard could it be.
2007-09-16 11:39:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
too costly
I'd suspect at least 1/2 a million
BUT, for only $200,000 you can just buy a ticket..........
that seems a little more obtainable
http://www.virgingalactic.com/flash.html
2007-09-16 11:49:15 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check out the source to see just how hard it is. Those people are doing EXACTLY what you say. They are building their own rocket so they can ride it into space. Read their extremely detailed progress reports and see just how hard it really is to do that. They have spent well over a million dollars and have not yet made it to space. But they will. They have what it takes. Intelligence, perseverance and millions of dollars.
2007-09-16 18:43:22 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Short answer, because it is VERY expensive.
It takes a lot of energy to get to lift something up about 100 miles and to achieve orbital velocity. Because rockets only convert a small portion of the energy extracted from their fuel, you need pay for this as well. The amount of fuel required to achieve orbit is a multiple of the payload being launched with conventional fuels. Rocket fuel and oxidant tends to be expensive, along with the rocket hardware itself. Because of the energy problem, space travel is not likely be cheap. And because it isn't cheap, we will won't see the economies of scale that keep the prices of things like automobiles fairly reasonable.
2007-09-16 19:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by William 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not wasteful, and I haven't used up all the space I have
here yet.
2007-09-16 18:59:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure I'm scared!
It's too hot on one side,
too cold on the other.
There's all this nasty high energy radiation.
Your life sustaining 'shirtsleeve environment`
is maintained by untried minimum weight
technology.......
You're carrying enough kinetic energy to
fry you six times over.
If your not scared of that, you're nuts.
2007-09-16 19:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by Irv S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Send me $30 million and I can get us a three seater-- you, me , and a pilot. Cash and in unfarked bills, if you don't mind.
2007-09-16 19:19:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Give me $20,000,000 and I'll go on the Russian one. Or give me $100,000,000,000 and I'll make my own space race.
Fear isn't keeping me back, economics is.
2007-09-16 18:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
i spent years on the satellite of love with two robots watching crappy movies and talking trash.
2007-09-16 18:54:38 · answer #8 · answered by Phil Deese 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋