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2. How Commercial space exploration is possible

3. Why Martian Tourism is Possible?

4. What & who would Martian Tourism and Tourists be?

6. Mars does have potential over the next decades.

7. Mars can be a money maker.

8. Mars can be a tourist destination.

10. Government space exploration and development is vital

11. There is an important place for private space exploration that has yet to be found

13. Christopher Columbus is an example.

14. You just need a big enough NASA prize.

16. Martian X-Prizes with government backing can take care of all the smaller details.

17. Private Martian Exploration will be cheaper.

19. Human commerical missions can follow a lot sooner then you might think.

21. The Mars Society can do a lot more then it is now with government backing, admittedly over a long period.

23. He did his first three missions without government backing

25. After flying in the Arctic in 1926 He went to Antarctic exploring in 1928-30

27. The US Government was not involved.

29. The exploration system was repeated

32. Commercial space exploration has a place in the world.

34. The Mars Society has the motivation and the leadership do do it if they want to

36. Mars is too far away and too dangerous

37. Mars is also rather boreing

38. Want to visit Mars? Go to Northern Canada.

40. Thats what space tourists are doing now.

41. Mars can make you someone better then you were before.

43. Mars is a whole new world!

44. Mars has played a part in human culture for the last 130,000 years.

45. As soon as it is possible it will happen.

47. I agree, Mars is not as exciting, or beautiful or exotic as the Moon.

48. More expensive and more dangerous.

49. However, thats not all true.

51. Mars will have a sense of being in another dimension.

52. Parts of the canyons.

53. View the top of the Olympus Mons.

55. After a person climbs to the top of the mountain they think they feel like a better person for the rest of thier life.

57. They felt that traveling to a wonderful place made them better people allround as well.

59. Pioneer Martan Tourists will need the same funds.

60. The world will be a richer place.

62. What will be the conditions?

63. What ships will be used?

64. What should they cost?

65. What should be training /selection for the tourists?

66. What is the risk?

68. The pit-stop Mars visit, Massively more difficult but only for a week or two.

69. Then private martian exploration missions similar to Admiral Byrd's

71. Traveling isolated from the rest of the world for many months will be tough mentally.

72. Traveling on the surface could be very tough.

74. Simple as possible.

75. Cheap as possible.

76. Reliable as possible.

77. Manageable as possible.

78. Ergonomic as possible.

79. Reusable as possible.

81. Prices will go down slowly for a number of reasons.

82. Competition between multiple Mars Travel Agencies is a must.

84. There needs to be a few months training.

85. Mental and physical fitness is a requirement.

86. Training will continue during the space cruise.

88. Everything is riskey to some degree There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe . Robert Heinlein