Rocket man 1 s Sieve Bennetts ambition was to be a rocket ‘lenis A few yeu ago he almost won a £10 mon prt Xp. New Steve bing rocket that wll take him and 2 passengers up imo ‘pace He blews that space tourism not reily that faraway. Space tourism is just about to happen, There are uit alt of people around the world stoally Putting lot of money ino space tourism, So {ts simply a question of wher not You know, jistas the Internet made billions, well space toutism i going to make trillonsies, And al {he big names are at it~ you've gt ell Bezoy, he did Amavon.com, hes buliding his on spaceships youve got Richard Branson, even he’s ‘commisioning someone to build aspacrahip for him. So i realy x going to happen And what are yor intending to fake people into ‘pace int Wht s your rocke® ‘rocket that can cary 3 people int space ‘Wee not going into orbit Ite gong straight up, steaght dow, bot it wil go int spac, {he you about 3 or 4 minutes of weightlessness, youl see the blackness of space the curvature {tthe earth and you relly wl truly Become {stronaut ast ike the early Americ ston ‘And you're going to he one ofthe people who 05 up, so Is ging to be you and two space Fourie: Have you been uplin his exact socket before Stee? No, wee sill working on this one. We've launched 16 big rockets to date, bu this actual space tourism rocket, called "Thundersta, wee Sill working on it, were sl building it was influenced a. smal child watching too many pisodes of Thunderbirds think ‘Wire you very much struck by the fst moon Tandings aw ‘Yup. Twas about 5 yeas old when they landed on the moon. Erm, my parents wouldnt et me tay upto watch the actual landing which was abit of ‘shame, How meant Yeah. Yeah. Wel they jas dt marvllous, bu they shoul spend 0 Something beter’ kind of atitade Lots of young boys wil hve ad exactly that ‘Kind of experience themselves bt very fev of ‘them wil Bow havea busines that is making rockets. Did you alway fel that eventually you ‘would get to dot professionally? Tepeit pretty quiet. 10, 15 yea ago you start talking about space ourism and people they think youre nuts s0 you keep that Kn of thing ‘o yoursel. ‘Wh do we realy need odo that, though? sean, is there actualy any noosity to have more hhumans in spacer Will thts pretty mach where the human race eed to be, you know in terms of expansion, {ou knove there's enough resources in space to allow the human race continue to grow and expand forthe ext 10 thousand years, ‘What kind of traning do you have to do inorder {0 go up inthe rocket? 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