Space tourism is months away from reality after a successful milestone test of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spacecraft on Oct. 11. Virgin Galactic will battle for customers with a Boeing/Space Adven-tures partnership offering rides on a new capsule being developed by the aerospace heavy-weight. The prospect of a flight in outer space is becoming less outlandish for more people as technological innovation and competition are putting downward pressure on prices. Post resource – Space tourism more accessible as competition drives down price by Personal Money Store.
Space virgins no more
Space tourism got a major shot within the arm when Virgin Galactic completed a flaw-less test flight of VSS Enterprise, the very first manned commercial spacecraft. Virgin Galactic will probably be the very first commercial spaceflight line, accounts Cable News Net-work. 370 consumer deposits within the amount of $200,000 came in to the company. That means it has $50 million for spending. Space Adventures is advertising a price of $102,000. That means they will be the biggest outer space vacation competition for Virgin. It’s about $40 million to get a space vacation package on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft which consists of being at the international space station a couple of days.
Space tourism seeing a lot of competi-tion
There have been decades of the Boeing Company working in space-flight. As reported in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the aerospace giant has entered into an agreement with Space Adventures to offer space vacation packages aboard its Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100). The original intention of the CST-100 was to get astronauts to the in-ternational outer space station easily. It wasn’t meant for anything else. Private individuals will be able to purchase seats on the capsule via Outer space Adventures. The CST-100 carries seven individuals and could be reused on multiple rockets. 2015 is the year Boeing plans to have the spacecraft ready. Then even you can catch a ride up.
Eat a lot but don’t gain even one pound
A Russian businessman plans to build the first space hotel by 2016. The Associated Press accounts that Sergei Kostenko, CEO of Orbital Technologies, announced his intentions to build a private space hotel accommodating up to seven individuals. Orbital Technologies explained that the hotel won’t be for astronauts. It could be “designed specifically for tourists” to visit. It will be more comfortable than the international outer space station because crowding it with scientific equipment won’t be necessary. Celebrity chefs might be enlisted to create dishes on Earth prepared especially for a weightless fine dining experience in zero gravity.
Further reading
CNN
cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/15/space.tourism/index.html?npt=NP1
Seattle PI
blog.seattlepi.com/airlinereporter/archives/221874.asp
Associated Press
google.com/search?q=space tourism and ie=utf-8 and oe=utf-8 and aq=t and rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official and client=firefox-a#q=space tourism and oe=utf-8 and rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official and client=firefox-a and um=1 and ie=UTF-8 and tbo=u and tbs=nws:1 and source=og and sa=N and hl=en and tab=wn and fp=6b353df19b06cafa
Leave a Reply