Legal Opinion
McPike v. Zero-Gravity Holdings, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided November 21, 2017No. Case No. 1:17-cv-562PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
T.S. Ellis, III, United States District Judge
Space tourism, once only the stuff of science fiction, is now, as this diversity case demonstrates,-just another part of the current scene. In March 2013, plaintiff Harald McPike, a wealthy Austrian adventurer seeking to be a space tourist, entered into a contract with Space Adventures, Ltd. (“SA”),1 a Virginia company specializing in space tourism, for a spaceflight around the moon and to the International Space Station. SA was to accomplish plaintiffs trip to space and around the moon with the aid of the Russian national space…
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