Space tourism is months away from reality after a successful milestone test of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spacecraft on Oct. 11. Virgin Galactic may have competition from Space Adventures, which is partnering with Boe-ing to offer a suborbital spaceflight experience. Technological advances and also the prospect of competition in the marketplace are driving down space tourism prices even before the very first flight has been launched.
Now we’ve visited space
The first manned commercial spacecraft was the VSS Enterprise which had been made by Virgin Galactic. That is what begun outer space tourism. Virgin Galactic will likely be the very first commercial spaceflight line, reports Cable News Net-work. 370 customer deposits within the amount of $200,000 came in to the business. That means it has $50 million for spending. Outer space Adventures is marketing a price of $102,000. That means they could be the biggest outer space travel and leisure competition for Virgin. Currently, a space tourism package aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that including a few days at the international space station is going for $40 million.
More rivals with outer space tourism
Spaceflight is what the Boeing company works with. This has been done for a long time. As reported within the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the aerospace giant has entered into an agreement with Space Adventures to offer space vacation packages aboard its Boeing Crew Outer space Transportation-100 (CST-100). The original intention of the CST-100 was to get astronauts to the in-ternational space station easily. It wasn’t meant for anything else. Private individuals could be able to buy seats on the capsule through Space Adventures. Multiple rockets can have the CST-100 on it, and seven individuals fit at a time. The spacecraft should be operational before 2015.
Eat all you want without gaining a pound
There’s a Russian businessman with large plans. He wants to build the very first outer space hotel before 2016. Based on the Associated Press, Sergei Kostenko is the CEO of Orbital Technologies. He plans to have a pri-vate hotel that seven individuals could be able to stay in. This hotel in outer space will be “designed specifically for tourists” claims Orbital Technologies. There won’t be scientific equipment in it making it more comfortable than the international outer space station. Super star chefs would be responsible for the meals. A zero gravity dining experience is possible.
Articles cited
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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