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Hey, Berin! Welcome to IASE 2.0! I hope all is well with you ... let's get together soon to catch up!

Dear Sir,

It is my intension to become the first sponsored astronaut to go into space. I would like to ask you to send the message below to all your Space Entrepreneurs group members. Because who know one might be interested in my foundation!

Thank you in advance!
Kind regards,

Adriaan Rijkens

mobile: +31633057560
email: info@givemeaspaceflight.com




Over the coming years commercial spaceflight is going to change this significantly. Spaceflight used to be for top scientists and for the most extravagant or rich people. Now there are commercial spacelines that give people the opportunity to fly into space for 200.000 dollars. This might seem a lot but is nothing compared to the millions of dollars a space-tourist had to pay to join a governmental spaceflight. The next step is to give everyone the opportunity to make a spaceflight. To achieve this the cost to get into space will have to decrease heavily. This will parallel the same trend that saw the increase of airline passengers in the previous century. The fact that spaceflight is for everyone will result in a massive increase of public participation in spaceflight and business development around it.

The givemeaspaceflight.com does not want to wait for commercial spaceflight to become affordable for everyone. It has as a goal to every year give an entrepreneurial student the opportunity to make a spaceflight. In doing so the foundation can prove that spaceflight is not just for the happy -rich- few but can gradually become something everyone can take part in, even a humble student. The activities of the foundation will increase awareness for commercial spaceflight and will inspire students to set goals that are beyond this world.

It is unbelievable that we live in a world where there is a slightest possibility that the foundation can succesfully fulfil its goal. People should never forget that we live in a very special time. I would like to end with an old publication of "Schiphol" from the year 1936 about commercial airflight which is very similar to the commercial spaceflight (if one would only replace the word "air" for "space")

How ordinary...
"How ordinary we (in a short period of time) think of the existence of commercial airflight, how normal we speak about this, we gave our full attention to this industry, looked at every development with an interest, which normally is not the case for other industries. It will not be strange,to write, that we still are aware, that the biggest victory was, that a fight was won, when mankind used a new element - the air - to use for its travel needs. Furthermore there is no doubt that the high speed of development of airflight and the full attention of the general public, gave it new fuel to move forward. It has been a short time, which had to be crossed to change airflight from what the public saw as an adventurous activity into a strong public organization, in which everyone confirms the importance of it and sees the big possibilities for business development."

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