Reading Time: 3 minutes Space Tourism Soon there will be something new for the tourist who has been everywhere and seen everything on Earth. Spacecraft being developed by private commercial companies will soon enable private citizens to buy their own tic

Space tourism will soon available to people on earth to offer new exciting tours to space apart from the mundane visits to places on earth. The reading passage states great benefits privatization of space travel will bring. However the lecture refutes all of these advantages with various arguments. The lecture holds the opinion that so far the spacecrafts solely owned by government, now being privatized will lead to various disadvantagesto science or public in general. It will however have adverse effects on them. This is supported with several reasons and examples.

Firstly, the lecture is of the opinion that space travel expenditure is surely going to be very expensive. This will be due to high costs incurred due to space traffic control, safety measure to be taken to ensure safety of travel and spacecrafts. This will reflect deeply in the cost of the travel to space. This casts doubts on the reading passage 's opinion that there will be a decline in the cost of technology and thus tourism will increase.

In contrast to the reading passage, the speaker believes that space tourism will never be able to increase the rate of scientific discoveries. Since space travel is planned to be taken over by private companies, the scientists working for the space exploration will be lured by the high scales of pay offered by the commercial industry. They would rather switch to commercial jobs and this will tremendously bring a fall in the scientific contribution made by the government exploration of space. Besides, the lecture clearly opposes the argument made in the reading passage that privatization of space travel will reduce the taxes paid by the public. It is indeed of the belief that there will more tax to be paid by the public. Primarily because all tax payers will pay more to subsidise the cost incurred in building space stations, airports, crafts, etc. There is no way possible that private sector will contribute such millions and billions of dollars of cost incurred for space tourism.

To sum up, the lecture strongly suggests that there would be no possibility of any benefits from space tourism , neither to public nor to science. If at all, space tourism and privatization of space travel will adversely affect space traffic, disturbing the ongoing research in this field. It will lead to overcrowding the space environment which will need more safety measures, and thus more cost to be incurred from all aspects.