After the problems at Scaled Composites and Armadillo Aerospace, is it possible to make a go of spaceflight when disaster seems at times to be lurking around every corner?
2007-11-01 02:24:47 · 5 answers · asked by mesun1408 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No. Just too expensive as yet.
2007-11-01 02:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be commercially viable somebody (other than people with sattelites to launch) would have to want to go there. I suspect that the novelty value of holidays on the moon would pretty soon begin to wear thin.
2007-11-01 03:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same question could have been asked about commercial traffic in a boat perhaps 500 years ago.
It will get safer and cheaper, but why would anybody want to pay to go to the moon?
Theres nothing there and you could not recolonise it .
Perhaps in another 500 years it will be everyday stuff as airline journeys are today.
2007-11-01 02:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by philhoonoseitall 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually, i think its possible now....
someone told me that for a ridiculous amount of money, you could go into orbit, but you stay in the spacecraft and its really short.
im not sure if this is true though
2007-11-01 03:19:19 · answer #4 · answered by Elsie23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
manned spaceflight IS expensive. to get a man into space, you have to burn a LOT of additional fuel for each man on your spaceship. And that's even without the added life-support and acceleration constraints you need to think about.
If all you have to do is put a satelite in orbit, don't send men with it : it's too expensive. (and useless)
But if you absolutely have to send humans into space, then... try to see if you can't design a robot to do the job instead.
2007-11-01 02:34:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋