[FPSPACE] Brainpool-TV Human Space Flight

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:

> Regarding the latest "commercial human space flight" project:
> 
> The German TV program "Brainpool" announcement
> (http://www.brainpool.de/servlet/IbMenu/ID=3883)
> refers to a press conference in Bremen on December 12. 
> 
> I hope our German colleagues can cover this, and share what they learn.

Ditto, I'd liked to see more.

The initial article on this raised a lot of questions, however.  As they
have proposed it, they are talking about something like 7 flights.  At $20
million a pop, that is $140 million.  Where are they going to get the
capital to finance that?  

In fact, more to the point, I saw no clear indication of how they expect
to make money at all.  So I am left wondering about this--until we see
more information, we should be skeptical.



D