With talk of NASA sending tourists to space, will the idea of sending ordinary, untrained civilians who would likely spend millions of dollars just to see a glimpse of space and what it feels like to be surrounded by the stars? The experience would be out of this world. But before all this hype came about, a man had already thought of the idea.
Twenty years ago, one man got a crazy idea: what if he started a loyalty program ... for space travel? But it turns out that space tourism is an industry perpetually on the brink of actually happening.
Read further to know about his story.
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I'll wait for the Martian Hilton, as I quite like Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." :)
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I'll add some more history of space tourism. Quoting http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120712-where-is-hiltons-lunar-hotel : "Those plans began to take off in 1967. Barron, who was then president of Hilton, told the Wall Street Journal that he was planning to cut the ribbon at an opening ceremony for a Lunar Hilton hotel within his lifetime." - something Mad Men fans might have heard about. To be fair, it was mostly a PR stunt, but many people made 'reservations'. Such tourism stunts are likely even older, as one of my favorite books as a kid, Heinlein's 1958 book "Have Space Suit—Will Travel", referred to them as coming true.
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