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Originally Posted by wehateporn
It's relatively simple to get into orbit, but it's not simple to send people on a 500,000 mile trip through space, land half way and then get back again. If they could do that in the 60's then in 2017 there would be day-trips available for tourists
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Day trips? It takes 3 days to get to the moon! Leaving and re-entering the atmosphere is not easy, and it's taxing on hardware.
The moons days last 13 days and temperatures reach 123C the nights are -153C. No water source. The list goes on.
Its not like a day trip to the desert. It's like 3 days of risking your life to reach the desert and 3 days risking your life to get back to earth.
You have a limited pool of space tourist wanting to visit the atmosphere let alone risk there life to visit a cold hot dusty rock by leaving & re-entering the atmosphere.