Guest: Erik Seedhouse. Topics: His new book, "Tourists In Space: A Practical Guide, Second Edition." Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. In addition, please remember that your Amazon purchases can help support The Space Show/OGLF. See www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/amazon.htm. For those listening to archives using live365.com and rating the programs, please email me as to why you assign a specific rating to the show. This will help me bring better programming to the audience. We welcomed back Erik Seedhouse to the program to discuss the new Second Edition of "Tourists In Space: A Practical Guide." In our first segment of our 1 hour 26 minute show, Erik told us that the second edition was about 80% new and that it would be released the end of August. If you buy the book on Amazon, you can order it at the special pre-release price. Also, be sure to use the OGLF portal explained in the archive summary statement, on the blog and on both TSS & OGLF websites. If you purchase it using the OGLF portal, Amazon makes a contribution to The Space Show. Erik opened with the manual part of the book and mentioned his suborbital training company, Suborbital Training located in Melbourne, Florida. For more information on suborbital training, visit www.suborbitaltraining.com. Next, Erik talked about the flight profiles for both the XCOR Lynx and the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo. I asked Erik for the top 3 or 4 challenges to the industry and he cited space safety as the largest challenge to overcome. Other top challenges included the spaceship noise which will be very loud, vibrations, acceleration, and space motion sickness. He talked about the impact mostly on the cardiac system. Erik was asked about the use of spacesuits with by the various companies. We also discussed orbital space tourism using the Dragon and then later using the Dream Chaser. Erik was asked if spaceflight participant medical exams would be done by special doctors or one's own doctor even if the doctor has no aerospace expertise or experience. Before the break & in response to a question, Erik pointed out that the industry was on hold given the all the earlier "cry wolf" announcements about starting revenue flights. In the second segment, Erik talked about going to space at the designated and approved altitude by the FAI in France, the official international record and standards keeping organization for space issues. He pointed out that 50 miles was not space. We talked some about the World View project, then our topic switched to spaceports here in the U.S. as well as those planned for outside the country. Erik raised some red flags given the spaceships are under ITAR control which might make it very difficult for them to be operated in a foreign country under present ITAR rules/regulations. Orbital tourism came up for Dream Chaser, Dragon V2 and the Bigelow Aerospace habs. In speaking about the industry, our guest pointed out how SpaceX was changing spaceflight by their success. The Brownsville, TX proposed SpaceX spaceport got lots of discussion time and email questions. Erik pointed out two commercial spacesuit design companies, Orbital Outfitters and Final Frontier Design. Near the end of our program, point to point transportation was discussed as were the potential winners in the upcoming commercial crew NASA down select process. Post your comments/questions on TSS blog above. You can contact Erik Seedhouse through me.
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