valleylist(sm) v182 r.1 thursday 11.10.2011
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CIVILIAN SPACE TRAVEL takes advantage of the latest new technology.
outer space is very high tech. the success of low cost high speed civilian airlines like hawaiin or southwest suggests there’s a market for space travel. what’s it like? fly into outer space. circle the earth a few times. do some sightseeing. admire truely stellar objects like the solar system and the entire milky way.
so far only 17 civilians have traveled to outer space. Most worked alongside trained russian cosmonauts and had little time for sightseeing. dennis tito became famous as the world’s first “space tourist”. a $20 million flight and a week aboard the russian spacecraft soyuz international space station. if the era of civilian spaceflight has a birthday it’s april 28 2001. mark shuttleworth south african billionaire was next in 2002 at a cost of $20 million. charles simonyi was the fifth space tourist and the second hungarian in space also paying $20 million for a week aboard the space station in 2009. in march 2009 aboard soyez-tma-14 simonvi made a second trip. guy laliberté was the last civilian space tourist in 2009 spending 11 days at the soyez international space station. cost of only $35 million.
american civilians have traveled to outer space with mixed results. u.s. senator jake gary o utah 1985 was the first. prince sultan salman abdelazize al-saud flew also in 1985. however nasa’s teacher in space christa mcauliffe [1986] died on the ill fated challenger voyage that blew up just after launch and brought an end to america’s guest astronaut program. the “civilian in space” program was abandoned after the 1986 challenger tragedy. teacher christa mcauliffe a new hampshire high-school teacher and six astronauts were killed when the challenger space shuttle exploded shortly after takeoff. after mcauliffe nasa started working with shuttleworth to make a new april deadline.
read the encyclopedia article civilians in space. n’synch singer lance bass was a potential civilian astronaut yet got dropped by nasa at the last minute. most consider the simonvi outer space excursions the most interesting.
end of space shuttle program in 2011 brings end of important era in american space travel.
for us space tourists. no real destination. a few special gravity effects. weightlessness. approaching the surpassing the speed of sound. the space station for an overnighter. lunar orbit. an extended stay? a lunar touch down for a week of out-of-the-world sightseeing.
there’s a lot that could be done yet space travel is still a nacient industry.
yuri gagarin soviet cosmonaut and first human to journey into outer space is the “valleylist” avatar this week. the vostok space craft completed one orbit in 1961 before returning safely to earth. he served as backup crew to the soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash). gagarin later became deputy training director of the cosmonaut training centre outside moscow which was later named after him. gagarin died in 1968 when a mig 15 training jet he was piloting crashed.
top 10 list of international civilian space travel services
4.spacex
6.project enterprise [europe]
7.arcaspace [since 1999]
10.nasa
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from halloween [10.31] to election day [11.08] only 8 days later san francisco was a carefully planned cacophony of lively parties and enthusiastic voters. i campaigned for john avalos a san francisco democrat dark horse candidate with a populist record for leveling the city. party affiliation fever. san francisco wants to clean up and leave the republican nuclear winter in the past.
a new central market arts neighborhood stretching from 6th street all the way up to octavia is flourishing and flowering.
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analysis. technology and consumer needs don’t necessarily overlap. is it possible to create an interest in civilian space travel? sell a lot of tickets and lower the cost-per-ticket from $200,000 to say around $1,500 round trip. “valleylist” estimates the price demand curve should reach an almost mass market. that’s a lot of consumer marketing just fill 0 gravity seats and make people see stars. for more information read “valleylist” outer space. throw in a few destinations or official “stops” along the way. plan for comfort. include “weekend in orbit” option. voila. almost a consumer business.
“valleylist” is lining up the digital future. all electric cars and off-the-grid electric power complete the picture of 21st century power and transportation.
“home of the future” should also be in the picture. the series of articles on electronic publishing is online. digital “movies film and video“ has a lot of articles that many describe as “gone digital”. electronic and digital music says a lot based on pop culture leading up to a beatles bonus track.
have to read the articles to find out if the digital revolution is yet complete.
“valleylist” is lining up the digital future. all electric cars and off-the-grid electric power complete the picture of 21st century power and transportation.
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“home of the future” should also be in the picture. the series of articles on electronic publishing is online. digital “movies film and video“ has a lot of articles that many describe as “gone digital”. electronic and digital music says a lot based on pop culture leading up to a beatles bonus track.
have to read the articles to find out if the digital revolution is yet complete.
the new “valleylist” planned titles - – home of the future
actual publishing schedule online at http://calendar.yahoo.com/g_mcpaul
pub date – - – - – - # _ title [avatar] volume number
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09/22/2011 – - – - – 28_home of the future [mies van der rohe] v176
09/29/2011 – - – - – 29_home audio home theatre [steven spielberg] v177
10/06/2011 – - – - – 30_top 10 inventions that changed the world [tesla] v178
10/13/2011 – - – - – 31_consumer multi media data channels [steve case] v179
10.19.2011 – - yahoo account problems
10.25.2011 – - yahoo account restored
10/27/2011 – - – - – 32_off the grid power sources [david geffen] v180
- – 10/31/2011 – - > halloween [holiday]
11/03/2011 – - – - – 33_top 10 electric cars [henry ford] v181
11/10/2011 – - – - – 34_civilian space travel [yuri gagarin] v182 <- – current edition
11/17/2011 – - – - – 35_rank order high tech products ["valleylist"] v183
11/24/2011 – - – - – 36_digital photoframes [daguerre] v184
- – 11/24/2011 – - > thanksgiving sf restaurants [holiday]
12/15/2011 – - – - – 37_email revisited [larry page] v185
- – 12/25/2011 – - > christmas [holiday]
- – 01/01/2012 – - > new year [holiday]
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the new “valleylist” planned titles - – home of the future
actual publishing schedule online at http://calendar.yahoo.com/g_mcpaul
10 new editions of “valleylist” leading up to a total of 4 holidays. that’s the new “valleylist” publishing schedule.
for more information try the valleylist index. the valleylist syndication edition includes all editions starting with #1 “valleylist” - – the correct response.
mayor gavin newsom – - “pride” ($100) still at 1009 market street san francisco. “2×2″ ($200) is on display at morty’s delicatessen 280 golden gate and “the head” self portrait [silkscreen] ($85) is included in the “tiny” show at the studio gallery 1815 polk street from 11.3 to 12.23. try the shooting gallery for the studio benefit auction on 11.18 with “home of the future” up for best offer.
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conclusion. dick cheney secretly announced plans to retire permently from politics. instead of following in the footsteps of diplomat cyruss vance cheney ended up the dark lord of the new century. many claim it started and ended with the enron political scandal.
i was busy campaigning for avalos for mayor of san francisco when the rumor hit the mill.
it’s a relief to know that even radical extremist right wingers have limits.
maybe that’ll free up george bush to run for the senate next round.
clintons bill and hillary continue to promote space travel and colonization. high tech everywhere on earth. multi-national space hubs and lunar landings as a stop over on the way to martian canals and cities. obama almost shut down and decommissioned the nasa space program for lack of a real focus.
technologically speaking civilian space travel is a compelling new industry. the phenomenal expense of putting people into space needs to be mittigated by building a real active market for space travel.
today it’s an expensive novelty.
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