From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   JF Mezei speculated:   
   > BTW, I find that Tito, Shuttleworth and Guy Laliberté's COMMERCIAL   
   > flights to ISS were far more significant than this small joyride to   
   > nowhere.   
      
   Nope, limited to billionaires and corporately sponsored special   
   choices, and with much more training requirements.   
      
   > Ironically made possible by Shuttle creating spare capacity on Soyuz,   
   > and I would assume that this may restart now that Crew Dragon is a reality.   
      
   Crew Dragon already has commercial passengers scheduled, but still out   
   of reach without big bucks or corporate sponsorship.  The number of   
   movies shot at the space station is still limited by theatrical release   
   schedules, not storage on your iPhone.   
      
   > But tourism to ISS also depends on need to rotate ships.  In the past   
   > you had a visiting crew with new ship and returning on old after staying   
   > a few days at the ISS Hilton.  But if ships now stay with the crews,   
   > there there are no longer short duration trips posisble with crews just   
   > switching the ships and coming back.   
      
   I don't see any problem with a short duration trip if you're paying for   
   the Crew Dragon flight.  Docking ports may be a limitation, though.   
      
   /dps   
      
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