[meteorite-list] Space Adventures Antarctic Meteorite Expedition

From: Christopher J. Faranetta <chrisfaranetta_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:40 2004
Message-ID: <002f01c19574$a4f2b900$88d9bfa8_at_janine.rubitski>

Dean,

I can tell you are a big fan of the NSF. This is the first year for the
Space Adventures expedition which, is completely private and uses the only
private aircraft and very expensive privately owned aviation fuel based in
the continent. Concerning the cold the trip is definitely not recommended
for couch potatoes, regarding the price well it is the only trip available
(that I know of) to deep within Antarctic continent.

CF


-----Original Message-----
From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com>
To: chrisfaranetta_at_sprintmail.com <chrisfaranetta@sprintmail.com>;
meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Adventures Antarctic Meteorite
Expedition


>>I would love to hear opinions on the expedition which has just >started,
>>see link below:
>>CF
>>Between January 3rd and the 18th, Space Adventures' is leading a
>>once-in-a-lifetime meteorite recovery expedition<snip>
>Hmmm. That company has been running that trip every year. How is that "Once
>in a lifetime". Somebody must have a very short life span.
>And I suspect that they will continue having these trips as long as they
can
>sucker enough people into paying $40,000 to cover the cost of the
>governments meteorite search trip and to provide free labour to search for
>them in a very inhospitable environment that it would be hard to imagine
>anybody wanting to actually go to. I guess that it is all in the way it is
>marketed.
>If they marketed their trip as it really is - which is a "Freeze your ass
>off while providing free labour and huge funding to help the government
find
>meteorites trip", then likely nobody would go.
>Not that I have a problem with that if thats how people want to spend their
>money.
>I bet that that company could sell snow to eskimos
>Cheers
>DEAN
>>
>
>
>to the Thiel mountains of
>>Antarctica. With the expedition underway, we invite you to follow our
>>team's
>>discoveries through our website!
>>http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/antarctica/index.html
>>
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Received on Fri 04 Jan 2002 06:07:42 PM PST