Is Space Tourism a Good Idea?

Nicol: One of the arguments for space tourism is that more and more people can be exposed to that feeling. But i also think, on the contrary, if everyone spent their life within a a hundred yards of where they were born, they would not understand the world at all. The ability to travel freely away from the place wher reare born and try and personally experience the world is immensely educational. And space travel is just now starting to allow that. We need to regulate it, just like we did with aviation a hundred years ago. It will find its place in amongst all the other human experiences to help flesh out our understanding of where we fit in the universe.