(For perspective, tickets on Virgin Galactic's upcoming flights to suborbital space, which don't even reach Earth's orbit currently go for $250,000 each.) Not bad for a chance to see where humans first set foot on the orb. He described going through an economic analysis of where the commercial space industry might go, concluding that if the sector were to become about as efficient as the commercial airline industry, a lunar city would be feasible - and that people could take a two-week trip there for about $70,000 in today's money. Just as he did when writing "The Martian," Weir clearly did a lot of homework to make the novel's lunar setting as realistic as possible. "She's incredibly sharp, and it was really empowering to pretend to be this person who could manage so many different situations - just felt like super MacGyver!" Jazz has "the types of instincts she has in a scuffle or whatever that someone who's coming from Earth wouldn't necessarily have, because how you would move and jump, and how you would use your environment around you, is so transformed," Dawson said. Like "The Martian," her story was "sci-fi, but the kind of sci-fi that's really tangible, and even though it's incredibly technical, really beautifully in layman's terms, in the sense where it really translates, and you feel like you're really there," she said. "I was really drawn to Jazz herself," Dawson said. Weir said he based the system's economics on resort towns Jazz, who grew up there as the daughter of a welder, is one of the blue-collar people who live there permanently and know the city inside and out. There's also a separate spot, accessible by train, where tourists can see the Apollo 11 landing site. And then Shepard is where the really rich people live."
Bean is sort of like suburban life it's middle-income folks. So there's 6 centimeters of aluminum, a meter of crushed lunar rock, and then another 6 centimeters of aluminum - and then air pressure inside, where all the people live."Įach sphere has its own distinct purpose, he added: "Armstrong is industry, Aldrin is the tourist center with casinos and hotels and stuff, Conrad is where the blue-collar folks live, the low-income people. "The big ones are 200 meters across, and the small one, Armstrong, is 100 meters.
"Each bubble is this big air-pressure vessel it's a sphere that's half underground and half aboveground," Weir said during the panel discussion. The cover for the audiobook of "Artemis," by Andy Weir, available on Audible.
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