Guest: Dr. Erik Seedhouse. Topics: Suborbital spaceflight & Erik's new book, "Suborbital: Industry at the Edge of Space." 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 Dr. Erik Seedhouse back to the show for this 1 hour 28 minute discussion regarding suborbital space and Erik's new book, "Suborbital: Industry at the Edge of Space." In the first segment, Erik started out by telling why he wrote the book and he gave us updates regarding the prominent suborbital space companies. We talked about payload flights, science flights, academic flights and space tourism flights. Dr. Seedhouse spoke to the need to lower the cost for the flights and the need to prepare for painful accidents. Listeners asked him to describe the flight profile for SpaceShip2 and the training many of the passengers had taken at the NASTAR Center. Erik then spoke about competing centers, the American Astronautic Institute in Florida and Waypoint 2 Space which is adjacent to NASA JSC. Questions came up about Astronauts4Hire and & the need to self market to get a flight. Erik talked about floating free during the microgravity part of the flight on Virgin, addressing the issue of getting back to your seat on time before reentry. Near the end of the segment, a listener asked why it was taking so long for suborbital flight we it was done decades ago and the information is in the public domain. Ham the Chimp got mentioned in this section. As the segment was closing, the new topic of space motion sickness came up. In the second segment, a listener wanted to know if it mattered to the passenger re medical issues if vertical launch was used or horizontal launch was used. Erik said the g force was the biggest medical problem with suborbital space. He also talked about long arm centrifuge training, then he went over the Anti-G Straining Maneuver to deal with g force issues. Space suits came, space tourist physical conditioning was discussion topic as was space radiation which Erik said was not a problem for suborbital flights. Please post your comments on The Space Show blog above. Erik can be contacted at DrEricSeedhouse@hotmail.com. Erik's website is www.suborbitaltraining.com.
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