This series will explore the job of space pilots and tour guides in the future and how humankind will fit in to a future world order domina...
This series will explore the job of space pilots and tour guides in the future and how humankind will fit in to a future world order dominated with the technologies we created. We explore how "human activity" will be taken over thereby rendering the jobs of today and obsolete relic of the past beyond a century in our distant future.
Years and centuries into the future, we will be experiencing great and revolutionary change to the way we live, how society works and how humankind as a whole will see themselves. Our world has been shaped by different periods of technological growth and progress from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Exponential growth in population and rapid advancement in manufacturing, production and consumption coupled with the rise of automation, artificial intelligence and robotics will transformed human society fully-integrated with our own mechanical wonders.
We all know that we are going to go to Mars and eventually, other planets in the future. So with that in the pipeline, there will be a boom in space tourism -- more space pilots and space tour guides will be needed to meet such demand. It is interesting to note that there may be legal issues involved once space tourism has become fully established.
According to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the launch operator's nationality and the launch site's location determine which country is responsible for any damages occurred from a launch. Safety remains a primary concern for future space travels with civilians so it is not clear yet when space tourism will become viable.
Elon Musk's SpaceX for example has to get a license that focuses on public safety and safety of property from U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. New Mexico has passed the landmark Spaceflight Informed Consent Act, which gives legal protection to companies who provide private space flights in the case of accidental harm or death to individuals. Anyone who sign an Informed Consent waiver, dictating that spaceflight operators cannot be held liable in the "death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of space flight activities". Operators are however not covered in the case of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Once the legal hurdles has been passed and space tourism will become viable. Commercial spacecrafts will become as common as commercial airliners so that travelling to the moon and back will be like crossing the Atlantic on a regular basis. I'm sure, no one can wait to get their hands on a round-trip ticket to Mars!
Do you want to become a space pilot or a space tour guide in the year 2045?
We all know that we are going to go to Mars and eventually, other planets in the future. So with that in the pipeline, there will be a boom in space tourism -- more space pilots and space tour guides will be needed to meet such demand. It is interesting to note that there may be legal issues involved once space tourism has become fully established.
According to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the launch operator's nationality and the launch site's location determine which country is responsible for any damages occurred from a launch. Safety remains a primary concern for future space travels with civilians so it is not clear yet when space tourism will become viable.
Elon Musk's SpaceX for example has to get a license that focuses on public safety and safety of property from U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. New Mexico has passed the landmark Spaceflight Informed Consent Act, which gives legal protection to companies who provide private space flights in the case of accidental harm or death to individuals. Anyone who sign an Informed Consent waiver, dictating that spaceflight operators cannot be held liable in the "death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of space flight activities". Operators are however not covered in the case of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Once the legal hurdles has been passed and space tourism will become viable. Commercial spacecrafts will become as common as commercial airliners so that travelling to the moon and back will be like crossing the Atlantic on a regular basis. I'm sure, no one can wait to get their hands on a round-trip ticket to Mars!
Do you want to become a space pilot or a space tour guide in the year 2045?
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