NewSpace 2010: Space Adventures President Tom Shelley

Tom Shelley
President, Space Adventures

Space Adventures

• 8 flights/7 passengers — ISS flights
• 6,000 people flown on ZERO-G planes
• There will be announcements coming out in the next few months about additional orbital missions with clients

Armadillo Suborbital Partnership

• Showed a promotional video
• 200 Armadillo Aerospace flights so far
• 40 flights – Armadillo’s rocket racing league vehicles
• “We believe they really do have a mechanism for radically reducing the cost of spaceflight”
• $100,000 per person to start
• Plans to significantly reduce costs with economies of scale
• Armadillo plans 20 test flights in the next 12 months
• Armadillo is hiring more people and finishing up the project
• 10 million people could afford a suborbital flight at current prices
• There is a market, we have barely scratched the surface…