the band and the band. space tourism one of the more fun civil ideas of our time or a solid business proposition in orbit around earth for the future well joining me is someone who should know a lot about that question it's eric anderson a space entrepreneur to say back here on earth so mr ransome thank you for joining us it's a pleasure ok we'll start off your company was founded taking people up to space since the two thousands i remember when i heard recently about the idea of a space hotel i made a bet with one of my colleagues that there would be no such thing in my lifetime now aside from the fact that i would never live to see the money if i did win that was the confidence i had that there would be no such thing was i foolish to make that too but unfortunately i think you probably war i have absolutely no doubt in

my mind that there will be a space hotel within the next ten years in orbit around the earth why. because there's an incredibly good business plan behind it because millions of people want to go to space and because the technology to provide such a hotel is getting closer and closer every day in terms of its cost effectiveness so there is in theory an impetus there but at the moment the principle impetus is this just the fact of let's go and see what is out there let's be a tourist in space is that really enough of an incentive all the market studies that have ever been done will show you that forty percent of the general public wants to go to space in their lifetime it just has to reach a point where they can afford it and it's safe enough for them to feel like they're not risking their life excessively to do it but i do think the tourism market is a catalyst it's not by any stretch the only reason we would go to space we'll go to

space for resources will mine the asteroids will get precious metals like platinum group metals from the asteroids people will. live in space will do pharmaceutical research will develop new drugs space will become part of our economic sphere of influence but tourism is a fantastic catalyst for that the i assess at the moment being the only platform capable of holding people in orbit is a working scientific platform are you planning perhaps to try and make space tourist useful that first of all space tourism honestly is not a great word for what these people do when they participate as private citizens going to the space station every single one of them who's flown with space adventures to the space station has had an in-depth scientific program whether it was material science or biological experiments or whatever it was they have participated they have paid their own way of course they have used themselves as part of the scientific community that many of them have gone to space with less

than perfect health and have been great examples of how for example laser surgery on your eyes as affected by space flight they all want to participate in this they are participating and the fact of the matter is quite honestly when private citizens go to the space station a lot more people hear about the space station than otherwise it's just one of those things that they captures the public's attention part of nasa is mission is to encourage to the maximum extent possible the commercial use of space and in fact showing that there is a market showing that there are people willing to do this and showing that you don't have to be a career military fighter pilot the right stuff kind of person that plays a huge role and i think that's exactly the sort of thing that ends up helping the space agencies of the world as well ok we'll get to the to the other economic areas the best of mining in in little while but the moment we have just seen the dragon spacecraft go up to take supplies to the isis that was

a significant moment. however. it was it was a small part of what is otherwise a vast state enterprise and without state capital it seems that at the moment no private enterprise could could exist you can point to companies like space x. space x. has a contract for services to deliver cargo to the space station but the capital that it was started with has come from its founder in lask and so this is an inflection point this was not always the case you're absolutely correct the for the first thirty years of space it's all been controlled by the government but we're reaching a point now in fact i think the flipping point was in the mid ninety's when private commercial expenditures in space finally exceeded government and that was of course driven by the satellite telecommunications market and things like that no one would argue that those are successful businesses but we're reaching

a point where commercial enterprise is creating its own space program and it will stand on itself it has been well noted that in the past year and a half there have been a number of worrying mistakes with russian space programs a supply rocket up the ice as fell back to worth a mission to one of the martian moons never got out of orbit and its course in high profile resignations and will likely lead to a lot of restructuring in the russian space agency serious concerns is this technology that's going to take people are good enough. the fact of the matter is that despite recent heck ups that may have occurred on different types of launch vehicles the soyuz spacecraft and rocket have the best safety record the best history of being a proven technology for reliably taking people to and from space in human history there is no other vehicle that comes close nasa uses this vehicle itself to get to space so while there is always room for improvement and while i'm sure and highly

confident that the russian space industry is is going to great lengths to to to make sure those things don't happen again spaceflight is inherently and they are an activity that is risky and so the risk is managed but it's never going to be perfect at the end of the day i think there's not many people in the world who would want to go to space who wouldn't feel comfortable flying on the soyuz the key technological breakthrough that we need is rapid and cost effective reusability. like flying in an airplane when you land the moscow airport where you landed new york airport they can turn the plane around in a couple of hours and leave actually less than that this is the problem what you're saying to me immediately i think of the shuttle there is no shuttle you can't reuse soyuz we're going the wrong way. so the shuttle was a vehicle that was incredibly high performing it was an amazing feat of human engineering but it really wasn't reusable i like to call it rebuild

a bowl certainly parts of it were rebuilding all certainly some of it was reusable but there was an incredible number of man hours that had to go into certifying that vehicle for re flight every time it ended up being far more expensive and far less reliable in terms of its reusability that's why i use the word rapidly reusable so the shuttle was not a great example of that however many of the vehicles that are being built now including for example the falcon in the dragon by space x. are designed and the c s t one hundred by boeing to be reusable ten times one hundred times a thousand times and those kinds of advances will be the ones and it's going to take time that will yield those price decreases that will eventually enable millions of people to go to space every year there is one of the costs that perhaps hasn't been looked at enough at the moment there's already a lot of criticism leveled at people flying all over the world for the holidays about emissions about pollution that not many rockets launch from of the moment but

they certainly don't environmentally friendly the ones that launch if that program is going to be expanded one could be the environmental costs of such space tourism . so when we calculated the carbon emissions of a soyuz launch it ended up being something like a fraction of a transatlantic air flight so it's actually not as much as you think the fuel on the space shuttle was liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and the exhaust was water so these are not the kinds of things that are really going to affect our carbon emissions and our environment as a whole even when we get to the point that there are literally tens of thousands of launches per year it's a drop in the bucket compared to all the other forms of emissions and pollution on children it's an issue that will will take shape in time we'll see how that one pans out the tourism isn't the only idea that you've got on the on the books as it

were you also mentioned earlier mining asteroids and this seems like a lot more sort of hard nosed commercial idea just trying to paint a little picture for us a lot of people can't really invision envisage this perhaps from pictures from animations that seem perhaps that there are asteroid belts but i don't think there are any asteroids that close to earth because that's the kind of thing that people get scared about of from destroying earth so what kind of distances are we talking about how is this actually with this actually look a fully running asteroid mining operation the wonderful question so in the solar system we have literally hundreds of millions of asteroids the vast majority of those asteroids lie in the asteroid belt the asteroid belt is between mars and jupiter one hundred million miles away or more however there is a small but not insignificant population of what's called near earth asteroids

anywhere between ten and twenty percent of the material on them are what we call volatiles what that means is most of it's water water ice and water is great because when you break down water into its constituent parts you get hydrogen and oxygen not coincidentally of the same fuel. all the space shuttle used to go to and to and from orbit and so we first want to use the asteroids to build propellant depots in space that is gas stations we want to be able to reduce the cost of space exploration by allowing spacecraft and spaceships to feel up no matter where they go and by doing that we will enable a space economy for all different kinds of businesses this is the second half of the equation of how to reduce the cost of space travel once we have the capability of propellant depots in space moving asteroids around becomes much easier and then we can go to the more valuable materials the higher cost per ounce materials for example the platinum group metals now fifteen fifteen hundred dollars an ounce on

average you have platinum palladium rhodium osmium iridium and the asteroids are chock full of these materials they appear in concentrations orders of magnitude better than the best platinum mines on earth in the asteroids and start to seem like a skeptic but i think i'm not alone in the image of of us sending out teams to try and move asteroids to try and land on them really starting to seem like the realms of science fiction i mean they managed to recently land lander on mars but that's really the very limits of the moment of our capabilities is this really a serious proposition how on earth would you go about doing something so let me be the first to admit there is a long list of technical challenges and it's going to be very hard this is something that we don't know all the answers yet but we do know is that there is no laws of physics that prevented that these are pieces of rock out there that for example something the size of the international space station could be worth two

hundred billion dollars and so where there is a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow there will be a way people thirty years ago thought drilling a hole down into the bottom of the ocean and pulling fossil fuels under. the north sea was impossible and now that's what we do as a matter of daily practice well we will have to see whether that does indeed transpire big promise is perhaps certainly big ambitions and perhaps big achievements as well whether there will be a future for space tourism and indeed space mining is down to people like our accounts and mr anderson thank you very much for joining us thank you it's been a real pleasure.

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traits that expose the body of death of a top intelligence chief which sparked protests and accusations of syrian involvement. right now or among joins me with this sport hello to more bad news for russia's most decorated football team spahn talk more scribed that's right say you know. men will have to do without their first and second choice goalkeepers in the upcoming champions league clash against bin fico got details on that right away. hello and welcome of this is sports with me wrong cos forever and this is what's coming up in this edition. number one blows sports talk moscow must rely on their third choice keeper for tuesday's crucial champions league match at home to benfica

. while a spark sachs group g rivals barcelona and celtic will battle for top spot in that later on choose they neither side has lost the game so far in this campaign. and it remains lance armstrong is stripped off his seven tour de france titles by cycling's governing body and banned for life. and let's start with football where sports they said goalkeeping crisis ahead of cheese they clash at home to benfica where injuries have forced the moscow sides i had third choice aren't all that rebrov his champions league debut richard import report. response talks injury list was long enough already it's now gotten even longer. the rhythm winds have only one foot keeper of to say good to see call joined i'm going to count on the sidelines the ukrainian international is just starting his comeback so it's unlikely that from a choice on somebody's growth will make his european debut for spot time. and head

coach when i am really understands just how important a clash it is for his team if i was about the donor i think this will be a crucial game for us just as it is for benfica i think it's fair to say that barcelona will win the group so we along with benfica and celtic are playing for second place and we didn't take our chance at home to celtic therefore tuesday's clash is very important for us firstly we're playing at home and we can't afford to lose here any more if we want to make the knockout stages. the pressure is certainly building on emery with his side losing the last three games by languishing in mid table domestically one of the champions league there without a point after the first two encounters should be a part of their thinking positively ahead of the game with benfica we can't afford to do anything else i'm sure that my team will put in a good performance against them and we've had some bad results but there have also been some positives and we're looking at these positives and i'm sure that this will help us to get the result we need on tuesday. meanwhile been fico coming to

this clash having lost just once all season and that being a two no reverse against barcelona. the portuguese outfit have a good combination of youth and experience and they are seasoned european campaigners getting to the quarter finals in last season's competition. also you can also will be an obvious frantz and he scored five goals domestically already however very good coach jorge you source is wary of us apartheid side despite the not being the best of form but voiding three losses in a row is great motivation for spartak they have nothing to lose spartak will be taking risks as they need to get a result and we may change our approach to the game because of this bin fico have yet to score in the opening two champions league encounters however they might fancy their chances against spartak side but it readies conceded six goals was part of having enjoyed a great start to their champions league campaign this year with no points are for

the first two games or pressure is firmly on the emirates side and if they don't manage to get a big tree on tuesday they can effectively say goodbye to their chances of qualifying for the knockout stages richard fleet anti moscow. and stay with the champions league group g. where leaders barcelona will be looking to maintain their top spots as they welcome second place to camp know the hoops gunning for a huge upset knowing the catalans will be missing some key personnel for that use they clash defenders cardless put y'all gerard piqué and danielle al vision to not play in this weekend's win over depor t. ball and will sit to help the european clash as well the scottish champions will be looking to expand that back up force the defense which has already conceded eleven goals thus far the hoops have already made plenty of noise beating sports in moscow and drawing with at home and boresome manager tito villanova knows that his upcoming opponents can not be underestimated. when i get on what about

a dealer for a crucial game no one team is assured of qualification at this point in time celtic were able to draw with ben feet in defeat spark talk which tells me there is serious threat i'm concerned with their counter-attack in ability but worries me most is our opponents. captain john terry is back in action for raiding champions chelsea who are in ukraine to battle the red hot shots are they've won fifteen out of their last sixteen matches across all competitions and blues manager roberto di matteo thanks he has the inside track on that sack takes off his opposite number. you want. you can see. through that you can see with the. team that went to the back of the goalkeeper and

a lot of talk think. it's an excellent. experience. and you still need to treat me well here. and elsewhere manchester united and to maintain their grip on group h. as the three former champions host portuguese side for raw ground when you're actually young it's set to return from a knee injury but it's offenders rio ferdinand's and patrice evra all will be arrested the red devils go into the match following last saturday's for two home win over stoke went star striker wayne rooney and that's it a brace to make up for an early own goal while manager sir alex ferguson knows braga could cause an upset. to my mind between we've moved. sure no one is going to go with those who is no easy going to turn because you knew . so it was a new push to go in and the minute you know so. once again.

it was. in the mood and you know. it was before the issue. one match took place in the russian premier league on monday where rock bottom of all the claims all made their second victory from twelve games after one nil win at eleven place we just said that's all that xander bill is europe headed home and great career at this corner midway through the second half and in the dive minutes creed is sergei calling the end goal saw his evil penalties saved by real crazy recall is the brother of city striker alexander as well just celebrated their first win in three months. now disgraced cyclist lance armstrong has been stripped of his seven tour de france titles the forty one year old was also banned for life after the international cycling union agreed with a damning report by the u.s. anti-doping agency the dossier or claims armstrong was making thing over a major drug ring helping him zalman

a sword to france from one thousand nine hundred ninety eight two thousand and five and organizers say they'll keep the titles vacant armstrong refused to fight the charges and last week they can't. a survivor also stepped down as chairman of his charity live strong. this is a landmark day for cycling. cycling indeed has endured a lot of pain as it has absorbed the impact of the usada report u.c.i. will ban lance armstrong from cycling and u.c.i. would strip him of his seven tour de france titles. lance armstrong has no place in cycling. and the final roller skates or of the year has concluded at domon all which is located three hundred fifty kilometers outside of moscow the state of the art center has played host to this event four times and michael kraft sankoh once a find out why. there's no doubt that one of the main reasons for russia winning the right to host the twenty fourteen winter olympics is due to the success of the

many winter sports athletes it's produced and with the games less than sixteen months away many are getting ready now but this by the increased urgency to better prepare it's often been a case of having the right set up in the sixteen thirty five tracks and other infrastructure have been serving professionals i mean because it falls since two thousand and three the center was initially designed to hold international events of any level there are no other centers in russia that have as many certified tracks as germany six times we've held a stage of the ski world cup here and have already secured it for the season after the olympics the rose ski tour is just one of the many events that the complex hosts with some are also including triathlon and marathon competitions but it's the impressive prix winter season where the center excels as it can produce its own snow even in plus temperatures. you know i've been roller and cross country skiing for a while and i can see this complex is one of the best in russia it has interesting

courses and is kept at a high international level what's best is that it's part of better developing roller ski and cross-country skiing in russia something that's been sorely needed so the infrastructure may be slowly popping up on the russian landscape however there's still a lot that the cross-country and roller ski federation's wish could be sped up and improved upon. i of course want to see more ski complexes and courses for roller skating built around russia because it's the main create syria for further developing these sports we're trying to help cultivate these boards in various regions of the country but there's still plenty of work to be done. but for now it's places like germany that will have to leave the way for future generations the germans for complex may be a one stop shop for personal roller skiis marathon runners and winter sports enthusiasts in general but it's also a great place just to come and relax and with cottages that have their own personal

foreigner you can be forgiven if you didn't make the finish line like a good chunk of r.t. . and another update is less than a couple of hours away but our you tube channel is available at any time just search for our sport news thanks for watching.

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