Re: msn story

I believe a major key to space exploration would be to designate space
as a "tax free" zone, allow any company(s) that produce or manufacture
in space all profits would be exempt from Federal/state/local taxes.
Time to make it worth while to go to space.    

Donald Hosford wrote:
> 
> Did they say how much it was going to cost to be a "space tourist"?
> 
> Donald Hosford
> 
> kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca wrote:
> 
> > Just saw a thing off of MSN today that indicated Boeing was
proposing
> > to add a "non-astronaut" habitation module to Freedom station in
order
> > to allow commercial travellers to have accomodation.
> >
> > Freedom will certainly cost a lot of money and not achieve the
> > potential it could have with some more forward thinking design (it
> > shows that it was designed by committee) but for all that, it is
> > pretty cool to think of.
> >
> > And Boeing is working on being one of the first MegaCorps into
space.
> >
> > (Tell me, will GigaCorps eventually succeed MegaCorps, then later
> > TeraCorps?)
> >
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