Tumlinson Interviewed on The Space Show

UPDATE: INTERVIEW AUDIO HERE --- Rick Tumlinson was the featured guest on The Space Show with Dr. David Livingston Sunday. He is is the co-Founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and a consultant to Accomack County, Virginia boosting the FAA-licensed commercial Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island.

A commercial space launch aficionado, Tumlinson told Space.com journalist Leondard David this week that within the next few months the first commercial space launch companies will begin flights and within two years the first paying customers will be flying. Within three years the first commercial facilities will be overhead and within five years you will be able to fly commercially to orbit on a private spaceship.

Tumlinson's goal is that in 10 to 20 years the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport "is really a port to space" -- including offerings like 60-minute flights to Europe as well as being a launch site for companies to take both cargo and wealthy tourists into space.