SpaceShipOne Designer Burt Rutan On Why Space Tourism Matters | [MIT Tech Review, Video Interview] http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
"Rutan [...] also believes that space tourism will produce innovations that cannot be predicted in advance, just as the personal computer industry was unexpectedly spawned when engineers started playing around with microprocessors in the 1970s." - Kurt Starnes
". . . he estimates that a sub-orbital ticket could one day cost as little as $475 per passenger, while a ticket to orbit could cost $12,000." - Kurt Starnes