Will the wreck of the submersible Titan and the death of its five passengers impact space tourism?
OceanGate’s Titan submersible
Three articles today all asked the same question as I pose above in the headline, noting the similarity in the business model of the deepsea tourism company OceanGate Expeditions and the burgeoning space tourism business, including both suborbital and orbital flights.
- Space News: What the wreck of the Titan portends for commercial spaceflight
- Houston Chronicle: How the Titan submersible tragedy could impact space tourism
- Florida Today: What the lost Titanic submersible means for explorers and space tourism
Without question there will be many more such articles in the coming days, as more information is gathered about what caused the failure of the Titan. As these three articles do, all will note the similarities and differences between deep sea tourism and space tourism.
First the differences. » Read more