ERIC Anderson, whose company Space Adventures sent the first tourist to space in 2001, is set to headline PATA’s 60th Anniversary and Conference in Beijing next month.
Scheduled to be interviewed on stage by CNN’s Richard Quest at the conference’s keynote session, Anderson believes that space travel has the potential to revolutionise commercial airline travel.
“We envision that, through the development of advanced spacecraft, the price of space travel will decrease and will enable the introduction of point-to-point travel,” he said.
“Once the price of spaceflight can be reduced to the tens of thousands, instead of starting at US$100,000, it will become more mainstream and accessible for the general public.”
The PATA 60th Anniversary and Conference marks the return of the conference after a five-year hiatus.
