What's with NASA shuttles?

**Al Khalifah** · 07-28-2005, 22:02

What would private companies gain from spending huge amounts of money on space exploration? There's very little money to be gained back from space exploration. Space exploration's benefits are much more scientific.

If I built a hotel complex on the moon, how much could I charge per person per night? Even just an orbitting hotel would do the trick. People would pay a fortune to go into space - such as that Russian (I think) businessman.
Buying real estate on the moon would pay dividends at resale time. Just think of the mark-up.

Space is the future and the corporations would definately want in.

**CBR** · 07-28-2005, 22:09

Originally Posted by Al Khalifah

Space is the future and the corporations would definately want in.

Well nothing stops them from doing it so why haven't we seen any hotels in space yet?

Its the cutting edge of engineering and costs a lot of money and there wont be any firms spending money on probes or scientific missions.

CBR

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 07-28-2005, 22:11

What are you guys talking about? As I said we already had a whole thread on the privitaztion of Space and its in full swing as we speak.

**Marcellus** · 07-28-2005, 22:15

The privatisation being talked about here is space tourism, not space exploration.

Edit: looks like Viking managed to get this point in a few posts ago.

**Viking** · 07-28-2005, 22:12

Originally Posted by Al Khalifah

If I built a hotel complex on the moon, how much could I charge per person per night? Even just an orbitting hotel would do the trick. People would pay a fortune to go into space - such as that Russian (I think) businessman.
Buying real estate on the moon would pay dividends at resale time. Just think of the mark-up.

That is not exploration, but tourism.

Originally Posted by Al Khalifah

Space is the future

I can easily agree with you in that