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Space Tourism
Posted Jun 6, 2001
The American Dennis Tito spent $20,000,000 to have a trip into space on board a Russian Rocket and thus become the first Space Tourist. I spent £260 2 years ago and have achieved the same thing and without all that tedious mucking about with training, an 8G launch, space sickness, re-entry and a hard landing in a ploughed field somewhere in the Urals.
My £260 bought me a telescope and a good one (Russian funnily enough) and with it I can see galaxys which are 10 million light years or more away, star clusters and nebulae (including the great Orion Nebula and the famous Ring Nebula), multiple stars and couloured stars (such as Betelgeuse near Ford Prefect's home planet). Closer to home I can visit the rings of Saturn, the gas bands and red spot of Jupiter, the pole caps and deserts of Mars and the cloud tops of Venus. The mountains and craters of the moon are on my doorstep and I can even see satellites and the Space Shuttle if I find our where and when to look.
All this for £260 - what a bargain !!!.
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