Webinar: Fly Me to the Moon: The Promise of Lunar Tourism
Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 13:00 CEST
In addition to exploration and resource utilization, lunar tourism could become a powerful economic stimulus for permanently extending human civilization to the surface of the Moon. This webinar discusses two important aspects: Derek Webber, satellite engineer and Vice Chair of Judges for the Google Lunar XPRIZE will talk about the history of space tourism and how this will lead to making lunar tourism happen, and Patrick Collins, economic professor and Chairman of the Society for Space Tourism of Japan, a longtime advocate of space tourism as a means to stimulate growth of commercial space development, will describe the kind of activities one could expect that would make lunar tourism attractive and enjoyable.
Derek Webber is Director of Spaceport Associates, a member of the Moon Village Association, and on the board of the non-profit ForAllMoonkind. He is a consultant, lecturer and author of four books on commercial space matters, including space tourism markets, regulation and spaceports. He is a former satellite engineer, managing director of a satellite services operator, and was Vice Chair of Judges for the Google Lunar XPRIZE. He is active in efforts to protect the lunar legacy sites from future incursions.
Patrick Collins is Chairman of the Society for Space Tourism of Japan (SSTJ) and Emeritus Professor of Azabu University, where he taught economics for 19 years. Earlier he was a Guest Researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology of Tokyo University (RCAST), the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) and the Institute for Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan, after being Senior Lecturer at Imperial College in London, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the economics of solar power satellites. He is also a Vice-President of Space Renaissance International. The focus of Dr. Collins' research for the past 40 years has been how to stimulate growth of commercial space activities, the two most important opportunities being tourism and solar power satellites, including their use as snow melting satellites (SMS).
The webinar is approximately one hour.
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