BBC Horizon: The story of the tourist race for space

Could be interesting !!!

Space Tourists
From eccentric entrepreneurs to billionaire businessmen like Richard Branson the race is on to turn space tourism into a reality.
Thursday 12 Jan, 9pm BBC Two


www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/index.shtml

Cheers Mark - there's another Beeb prog on on Sunday about the woman who did the research on DNA. See www.astroshack.net/events.php .

(Shameless plug, I know... But I think some of the folks here like the idea of a rolling 'events' board - so you might want to bookmark it. I'm reasonably good at updating it )

Cheers

Dave

Well worth watching Mark, for one that watches little or no television I enjoyed that.....now I wonder where I can get a hold of €200.000
Charles

Charles/Mark - very enjoyable but it was a tinged with a little sadness for the folks who didn't get theirs off the ground...

Is a few minutes in suborbital space worth a couple of hundred grand though? Especially with the risk - the likelhood of something going is probably slim but the consequences are pretty certain...

Thanks for the notification!

Cheers

Dave

Cheers for the heads up on this. Watched it and liked it. It was not all "oooh this is going to be great" but a lot mroe realistic and it stated very clearly that is it not a matter of IF there are fatalities but WHEN there are fatalities.

I enjoyed it though I was hoping the geek would do it even though I knew he didn't.

Good Show