From: alain245@videotron.ca   
      
   On May/14/2022 at 22:00, Sylvia Else wrote :   
      
   > Why mess about? Why not imagine a Star-Trek style warp drive? People   
   > could go up to the station by Star-Trek transporter as well - none of   
   > that faffing around with launches into Earth orbit.   
      
   On a more serious note. SpaceX and probably soon Blue Origin are   
   developing interesting rocket capacity. Assuming that SpaceX and Blue   
   Origin do succeed in building fully reusable cheap rockets, I think it   
   is more on the space amenities side that innovation is needed.   
   Personally, I am less interested in space hotels than in Martian   
   infrastructures. I would love to see some companies developing   
   greenhouses, habitats, spacesuits... for a Mars colony. But I see few   
   developments on that side.   
      
   Even if I don't think the Space Hotel project that spurred this thread   
   is viable, it is that kind of thing that is needed to develop space.   
      
      
   Alain Fournier   
      
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