Do you want to buy a piece of land that can give you lots of quiet and great views of the stars? Think about that having your private or company mail box address on the Moon or March! And in your holiday time you spended your days resting and viewing stars from your own holiday resort on the Moon or March. There are still vacant estates on both the Moon and March, so hurry up!
Photo: Moonlandscape from the Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.
Referred from CNN, November 20, 2000, There's a sale going on that's out of this world. But hurry, the price will soon rise astronomically. Hollywood celebrities, ex-U.S. presidents, "Star Trek" actors and NASA employees have joined in the rush to call a piece of the moon their own. The brainchild behind the lunar real estate development is Dennis Hope, a U.S. entrepreneur who asserts he secured legal ownership of the moon and most other bodies in the solar system.
Hope's celestial ambitions began 20 years ago when he registered with the U.S. government a claim to the surface of Earth's moon and the eight other planets and their satellites. The Californian also sent notice of his claim the Russian government and the United Nations.
On 28 April 2001, Dennis Tito, a California-based multi-millionaire, became the first ever space tourist. Launched into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule, Tito proved that travelling beyond Earth's gravity was not just the province of a select few, but that anyone with drive, determination - and at this point in history, a lot of money - could become an astronaut.
SpaceShipOne and its White Knight turbojet launch aircraft represent the first private non-government effort to demonstrate a low-cost manned space effort. SpaceShipOne is a contender for the coveted X Prize - a $10 million purse to help stimulate sub-orbital as well as orbital passenger space travel (referred from Space.com, written of Leonard David, Senior Space Writer, 18 December 2003).
Space tourism is a fledgling industry, born out of necessity, yet driven by the same curiosity and ambition that took humanity to the Moon; it appears to be here to stay. In Russia, Europe and the United States, private companies are already vying to become space tourism leaders. China and Japan is also on the arena trying to break new borders.
The space race is on, also for the tourist industry!
Stein Morten Lund, 8 February 2004
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Referred from SPACE.com: 24 Hours of Chaos: The Day The Moon Was Made, by Robert Roy Britt, Senior Science Writer, 15 August 2001. For 25 years, scientists have pondered a theory that the Moon was created when an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth less than 100 million years after the Sun was born, some 4.6 billion years ago. This is now the most popular explanation.
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