[FPSPACE] heated circumlunar debate

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Keith:

>  This debate has sometimes had an unnecessarily acerbic tone of
> voice!  

It's all in good fun - at least for me. Can't speak for anyone else.

Don't worry about the tourist market. If this were about tourism, we'd be 
fiercely debating some other aspect of spaceflight right now, not this 
circumlunar plan, because this circumlunar plan would be going nowhere. No, this is 
about a Russian prestige bid, a national project. The tourism thing is, well, not 
exactly incidental, but not the main thing. So, one needn't worry about the 
illogic of this from a marketing standpoint - though your points are good ones.

David

David S. F. Portree
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