Holidays in Space
The biggest commercial opportunity in space exploration could be tourism
Business Daily · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
The private sector is muscling in on space exploration, and the biggest commercial opportunity could be tourism.
Ed Butler meets the star-gazers at the Future in Review conference of tech entrepreneurs in Utah. Ariel Ekblaw, who founded the Space Exploration Initiative at MIT, discusses the logic of self-assembling space hotels. Nasa chief scientist Dennis Bushnell talks cosmic beach combing.
And Chris Lewicki, head of space mining start-up Planetary Resources, explains why he thinks it makes more sense to mine water on asteroids than bring it with us from Earth.
(Picture: Fictional space station with astronauts and space ships; Credit: ZargonDesign/Getty Images)