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1000 (Special Edition) |  Listen to the show! | | Aired on August 17th, 2008 | | Guest: Dr. Patrick Collins |
| Guest: Dr. Patrick Collins was our very special guest for this 1,000th Space Show program! Dr. Collins joined us from Japan as he was also the very first Space Show guest on June 13, 2001. We started our discussion with a type of report card for space tourism in 2001 and now in 2008. We both went through a list of milestones, accomplishments, events, and developments in order to ascertain the level of progress made in developing space tourism over the past seven years. Dr. Collins made the case for economic development with space tourism as the driver, not just for space development, but for our terrestrial economy as well. He received lots of listener questions expanding on the economic potential of space tourism as well as challenging the validity of it as a space development driver. Dr. Collins suggested starting small and supporting the suborbital tourism market in order to position the industry to expand to orbital. We also talked about government support for the industry and compared it to the way government supports other industries or even bails them out when they get into trouble. Dr. Collins also spoke about both the educational and inspirational factors associated with space tourism and how important it was for people around the world since most want to go to space. He bases this on the studies he cited on air. During the show, we digressed to discussions about space solar power in Japan, the US, and also along the equatorial zones. You will want to hear what he has to say about the business case for space solar power. As a result of a listener question, we explored the topic of opportunity cost for a space investment and also the quality and maturity level of possible space tourism investment opportunities. You will definitely want to hear this memorable Space Show 1,000th program. If you have questions or comments for Dr. Collins, you can email them to me at drspace@thespaceshow.com and I will forward the comments to him.
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| About our guest... |
Dr. Patrick Collins
Dr. Patrick Collins is an exceptionally well known and respected authority on space economics, space tourism, reusable launch vehicles, and space solar power. Dr. Collins joins us again to discuss space tourism, space economics, space solar power and much more. Dr. Collins was the initial guest on The Space Show, the 100th guest, and the 1,000th on The Space Show. He is a professor of economics at Azabu University in Japan, and a Collaborating Researcher with the Institute for Space & Astronautical Science, as well as adviser to a number of companies. The focus of Dr. Collin's research for the past 25 years has been on how to stimulate growth of commercial space activities, the two main opportunities being tourism and energy supply. Dr. Collins performed the first market research on space tourism in Japan in 1993, and in the USA in 1995 and it has been very satisfactory for him to see his results confirmed by Nasa-funded studies performed in last two years. In addition, Dr. Collins is the co-founder of Space Future Consulting, which maintains the Spacefuture.com website among other activities. Space Future Japan recently opened and is making great progress in the country, especially among young people. Dr. Collins will update us on this exciting development. He is closely involved with Japanese work on space tourism and space solar power, subjects which are gradually getting more and more attention. Dr. Collins is widely published, including Aviation Week, he spoke a the AIAA Wright Brothers Centenary Celebration in Dayton Ohio and it is an honor and privilege to have him return to The Space Show.
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