Science and astronautics: concepts and applications

Space Travel Proposal

Developing Space Vehicles for Future Space Tourism.

The New Demand For Space Travel

The Rise of the Leisure Class

Conspicuous Consumption

A New Manifest Destiny

Available Technology

Existing Space Tourism Companies

Space X

Virgin

Other rising companies

Space Elevators

Research and Development

The independent inventor's role

Nuclear technology.

Tesla technology.

Alien intervention and other sources of data

Leadership and Guidance.

Who will lead?

A case for government to lead.

NASA

International governmental cooperation.

Business Implications

Compounding effect.

Space manufacturing.

Better to build in space?

Better build on Earth and launch?

Conclusions/Summary

References.

Proposal

This essay will examine the idea of developing space vehicles for the new and demanding space travel and tourism industry. The purpose of the essay will be to highlight the key and important information regarding this topic and present the many differing options that this may be accomplished and ultimately achieved with purpose and impact.

The essay will first look at some of the contributing factors to this new demand for space travel. The idea that a new leisure class with extremes amount of expendable money can now afford the trip of a lifetime by venturing out in space and exploring the unknown for a hefty fee and price. This idea will tie in the bigger idea of a new Manifest Destiny taking over the world by human accepting their fate as travelers of space. This spiritual revolution will help propel the business world to meet these new demands and produce new and effective space vehicles for entertainment travel.

The next portion of the essay will examine the current status of space travel and view the pros and cons of these companies and technologies to better understand the environment in which the problem exists. Space tourism companies such as Virgin, SpaceX, Robinson Industries, JPL 2 and others will be compared and contrasted for their current and foreseeable contributions to this idea of business of space vehicle production.

The next portion of the essay will attempt to grasp the leadership issues dealing with the research and development. The travel to space cannot simply be restricted to anyone, but cooperation at some level and appropriate regulation must be synthesized when possible. The roles of international governments and their space agencies, such as NASA, will also be discussed as contributors to the solution to the problem. These organizations will also be compared and contrasted to gain a fuller understanding of the subject.