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Originally Posted by miketwalker
... because that's going to revolutionize the space-tourism industry.
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Doesn't something need to exist before it can be revolutionized. (I guess you can count that N*SYNC guy trying to go to MIR... but I don't think its an industry.)
I do agree that the X-Prize competition is very interesting, but for its industry value, not for tourism. I think main reason the tourist-y theme was chosen (have to launch at least three people), was because that would attract hordes more media attention than unmanned rockets would. I imagine unmanned adaptations of these very-cheap-to-LEO rockets will be the real source of income for X-prize contestants.