olling@trc.jnoc.go.jp (Cliff Olling) (12/19/90)
In article <15465@accuvax.nwu.edu> Arora@uh.edu writes: > The company has a contract with the Soviet space bureau to put an >American aboard a Soyuz space capsule with two cosmonauts and fly him >or her to Mir, the [Soviet] space station... Hmm, I believe it was just a week or two ago that Tokyo Broadcasting System Corporation did just that for one of their journalists. They reportedly paid between $12-15 million to get him up to Mir for eight days. They showed lots of real-time video from the space station (at least I think it was real-time). For example, I saw the docking of the journalist's Soyuz with the space station live after dinner one evening. Funny how the other networks in Tokyo never mentioned a peep about any of this :-). So at $3 per call, Space Travel Services will break even after they receive about five *million* calls :-) :-). I'd say this means "keep dreaming". Clifford Olling Japan National Oil Corporation $@@PL}8xCD(J Technology Research Center $@@PL}3+H/5;=Q(J Chiba City, Japan olling@jnoc.go.jp $@KkD%K\6?1X(J 24hrs/day=>81+472-73-5831