TSR: Dealing with the risks of space tourism

Published: Tue Oct 5th, 2004
Source: www.thespacereview.com



Wednesday’s SpaceShipOne flight offered a reminder of how risky commercial suborbital spaceflight can be, or at least seem to be. Jeff Foust explores the real and perceived risks and what the industry and regulators are doing to mitigate them.


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