Sports in Space: Another Space Utilization that Drives Space Commercialization
- Paper number
IAC-07-B3.I.07
- Author
Ms. Misuzu Onuki, Space Frontier Foundation, Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Charles Lauer, Rocketplane Ltd., United States
- Year
2007
- Abstract
Sports have been one of the most popular things for human beings since ancient days. It is obvious that there are so many athletic and sports events all ever the world even the back side of the world. We are very interested in sports and enjoy ourselves, both doing and watching. Sports have fighting and racing style. However, once the game is over, it has gone and everyone is on the same side, what is called no side rule and so on. Such sporting events are the symbol of peace. Think about the Olympic Games, it is a big role for keeping a peaceful world on our terrestrial. There have be done sports type of things for just fun by astronauts on board such as basket ball made of waste paper and soccer, sumou of just form and so on. Recently, a Russian astronaut shot a golf outside International Space Station. This is for a commercial sponsorship opportunity of a Canadian golf company. Sports is so popular so that they could have big sponsor deal for sports in space as well as they can do on earth such as title event and commercial promotion and so on. Sports in space have two categories. One is sports which is done inside under OG or Lunar G and the other is sports need special technique, skill, and rules even they are based on existing sports. This paper will describe how sporting events such as zero G soccer and space diving and the promotion of these events in space can make a powerful connection with popular culture and build markets for human commercial space activity
- Abstract document
- Manuscript document
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