Outer space tourism no more an extremely hard dream

Joyrides in space are no longer a remote possi-bility, because of the landmark Oct. 11 test flight of Virgin Ga-lactic’s commercial spacecraft. Virgin Galactic may have competitors from Outer space Adventures, which is partnering with Boe-ing to offer a suborbital spaceflight experience. Technological advances and the prospect of competition in the marketplace are driving down space tourism prices even before the very first flight has been launched.

The first progress into outer space

The very first manned commercial spacecraft had been the VSS Enterprise which was made by Virgin Galactic. That is what begun outer space tourism. Virgin Galactic will probably be the very first commercial spaceflight line, reports CNN. The company has collected 370 consumer deposits for the $200,000 flight totaling $50 million. Even-tually Virgin can have competitors from Space Adventures, which is advertising suborbital outer space travel and leisure for about half that price: $102,000. You are able to get a ride on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft including a few days at the international outer space station. Of course, you’d have to pay $40 million for this package.

Space travel and leisure experiencing a lot of competi-tion

The Boeing Business has been involved in spaceflight for several decades. Outer space Adventures and Boeing are working together to make space tourism possible. The plans are to use the Boeing Crew Space Transportation-100, or CST-100, for the flights. The CST-100 was used to get astronauts to the international space station at first. Outer space Adventures will be in charge of booking the seats. This will give private individuals rides. The CST-100 carries seven people and could be reused on multiple rockets. 2015 is the year Boeing plans to have the spacecraft ready. Then even you are able to catch a ride up.

Don’t gain anything when nevertheless eating

A Russian businessman plans to build the first space hotel by 2016. Based on the Associated Press, Sergei Kostenko is the CEO of Orbital Technologies. He plans to have a pri-vate hotel that seven people can be able to stay in. Orbital Technologies states the first hotel built in space will be “designed specifically for tourists.”. There won’t be scientific equipment in it making it more comfortable than the international space station. There would be dishes made on Earth for a weightless dining experience with zero gravity by celebrity chefs.

Citations

CNN

cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/15/space.tourism/index.html?npt=NP1

Seattle PI

blog.seattlepi.com/airlinereporter/archives/221874.asp

Associated Press

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