“It’s not NASA’s job to send a man to Mars. It’s NASA’s job to make it possible for the National Geographic Society to send a man to Mars.”
Glenn Reynolds continues his space reporting with a roundup on space tourism developments, including this encouraging bit from AP:
Space tourism companies can survive the inevitable disaster if they warn passengers of the risks that a privately operated rocket ship could crash, an executive of one of the leading firms said Friday.
“God forbid it should happen on the first flight. Hopefully it’s many, many years out,” said Alex Tai, chief operating officer for British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture.
Glenn has been attending and reporting from the International Space Development Conference [ISDC]. Lots of interesting stuff…
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