There isn't a textbook, although the faculty may put one together, eventually. A teachable moment, for example, might stem from a model provided by an orbital engineer of the path of a floating hotel. RIT is working with Space Island Group, Inc. , a company exploring the commercial use of existing NASA technologies. The faculty also uses NASA research, Domoy said. Clearly, space travel is expanding.
Satellites are mostly commercial ventures.
The big question, of course, is whether any of this is realistic. Mendell explains that launching enough sightseers into low earth orbit to support a hospitality industry boils down to economics. For that price, an adventurer would get about three weeks of preparation and one day in orbit. The revenues are phenomenal. The first space tourist may arrive by the end of April, courtesy of the Russian Space Agency .