From: vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate)
Newsgroups: sci.space.policy
Subject: Commercial Space Projects after CATS?
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I have made a web page with short descriptions of several space projects 
that might make commercial sense after we have cheap access to space 
(CATS).  In my model tourism to Earth orbit justifies the CATS 
development, so all of these are after that.  

The page is:    http://spacetethers.com/future.html

Current topics are:

    Tourism beyond Earth orbit:
       Lunar Flyby Hotel - Toss small hotel on Lunar safe return orbit 
       Lunar Tether - tether to get to the surface of the moon
       Lunar RVs - mobile tourist bases always in sun for power/farming/algae
       Lunar Base - fixed base at a Lunar pole
    Mining Asteroids
    Mars Tethers
    Space Solar Power
    O'Niell Style Colony
    Mining Mercury
    Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - SETI 

What other space projects might make commercial sense after we get CATS?
Assume CATS means $50/lb to GEO.

   -- Vince