Spaceport
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What is a spaceport?
A spaceport is Aditya Mittal's conception of a commercial port for traveling to and from space, similar to airport or seaport. "Let's build the first ever commercial spaceport. Let's look beyond this earth for energy solutions, for extraterrestrial life, and make one world. This is not the era of picasso and columbus, this is our era."
Why build it?
We should build a spaceport for many reasons:
- Economic stimulus
- Continued technological progress
- More jobs for better educated persons
- Exploration of new energy solutions
- Space exploration and looking beyond earth for solutions,
- Reducing internal fighting over resources
- Continue search for extraterrestrial life
What is the cost?
India's probe to the moon cost only $80 million, the economic stimulus bailout cost $800 billion. I'm voting for spaceport. It seems more and more feasible for our one world. We only need to think big, and think one. It makes far more sense to get people jobs in building a spaceport than trying to save their job at failing car companies. Furthermore, it helps reduce replacement of better educated people with cheaper people by actually producing job opportunities requiring better educated persons. This gives opportunities for everyone.
The exact specifications for the spaceport are still to be worked out but I would estimate a project of the order of about $200 billion for a real state of the art platform. It will allow direct employment of large number of workers, to build a few different stations, making up for the recent job losses. Due to the diversification, unlike the space elevator, it is also easier to protect from terror attacks.
How to commercialize it?
The commercialization opportunities for the spaceport will increase as private companies gain the ability to build and launch spaceships and rockets. Initially, each spaceships and rocket can carry projects of many private companies for a fee. The spaceport will be used by shipping companies, travelers, and many different types of businesses in the future.
Related News
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/12/space-traffic-control.html
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/spaceshipone.htm
