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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Space Tourism

I'm pretty excited about commercial space flights. I Think it's the coolest thing ever. However I can not afford it, and even if I could afford it I would not do it. I'm not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for just a few minutes without gravity.

If I had the money though I would pay to spend a week at a space Hotel, that would be cool. The problem is that the commercial space ships can't fly high enough to make it to a Space station. So as I was thinking about this I came up with my own solution to this problem. Someone needs to build the first ever, real Space Ship. A Ship that is designed to fly around in space in earth's Orbit.

This space ship would swoop down and pick up these smaller space crafts and pull them up to a higher orbit. This way we could use these cheaper smaller ships to get all the way to a space hotel. I don't think this ship would take much fuel, it could use the gravity of the earth to power it's dives, and it could shoot some kind of bungee cord with a big magnet on it to grab the other ship. (The bungee cord is to keep the 'attachment jolt' down.)

Ok well that's my thoughts on it, hopefully someone out there on the web will build this for me after I save up the $500,000 needed for transportation, room and board, for such a trip. That should give you a good 50 years to build it before I get there.

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