Reply #4: yep - set up as tourism

[Avalux]

Rich people can go to Dubai and pay millions to take a suborbital flight:

Both sides declined to disclose the amount of investment, but Prodea co-founder Hamid Ansari said the firm was fully committed to funding the project.

Arlington, Va.-based Space Adventures is best known for sending three tourists to the orbiting international space station for a reported $20 million a person.

Space Adventures currently has about $3 million in escrow from nearly 200 potential passengers who have paid deposits to fly aboard a yet-to-be-built suborbital vehicle.

Space Adventures' partnership with Texas-based Prodea marks the first time the space tour operator has played a direct role in the development of suborbital spaceships, Anderson said. Suborbital ships go up and come immediately back down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060217/ap_on_sc/space_tourism

I want to find out more about Hamid Ansari........and what this is really all about. tourism? OK.