The Adventurers

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The Adventurers Survey

• Derek Webber
• Director, Spaceport Associates
• www.SpaceportAssociates.com

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Why a new survey of space tourism perceptions?

• Previous (Futron/Zogby) was 2002
• Some new questions, some achievements
• Survey done via web-site of Incredible Adventures
  approx 1,000 responses
• Note not statistically valid
• A range of offerings evaluated, including
  training, sub-orbital, orbital, lunar, hotels,
  EVA, architectures, pricing

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Architectures for Take-off

• Vertical
• Like a standard rocket launch, and was used
  historically by all US astronauts starting with
  Mercury and Apollo and including Shuttle flyers
  today
• Horizontal, Suspended under Mother Craft
• Used historically by early flyers like Chuck
  Yeager in the X-1 and more recently by the
  SpaceShipOne team when they won the X-Prize in
  2004
• Horizontal in aircraft going all the way to space
• Not yet been demonstrated, but is being
  developed by Rocketplane in Oklahoma. The
  aircraft takes off using conventional jet
  engines, and transitions to rocket engines when
  it reaches altitude

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Take-off Architecture-Preferences
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Architectures for Landing

• Vertical Landing in Water
• Used historically by the early US astronauts
  from Mercury to Apollo
• Vertical Landing on Land
• Used consistently by all Russian spacecraft from
  Vostok to the present day
• Horizontal Landing on Land
• Used by todays Space Shuttle and also by the
  SpaceShipOne team

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Landing Architectures - Preferences
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Spaceports, Space Hotels, EVAs

• Spaceports
• Does the location of a suborbital spaceport
  matter?
• 48 would go anywhere, 31 anywhere in their
  country, 21 said best view
• Space Hotels
• How important is a stop at a space hotel or
  space station, or are you happy staying in the
  spacecraft the whole orbital mission?
• 79 said they did not need hotel (note 50 wanted
  to stay a week or less in orbit).
• EVAs
• Would you like.to float freely in space outside
  the spacecraft?
• 88 said yes, and 85 of these would pay up to
  20 premium.

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Thank You

• Executive Summary available (free) on web-site
  home page.
• Full Report of Survey will be available for sale,
  via the web-site, during November.
• Thanks to Jane Reifert of Incredible Adventures
  for access to her client base.
• http//www.SpaceportAssociates.com

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Derek WebberSpaceport Associates5909 Rolston
RoadBethesda, MD 20817Tel (301) 493
2550DWspace_at_aol.com

• http//www.SpaceportAssociates.com