Space Tourism
Hence space travel was born.
Space tourism. So you want to be a space tourist. Blue origin the rocket venture founded by jeff bezos launched its space tourism rocket from its west texas test site to the edge of earth s atmosphere on tuesday marking the first test flight. Here are your options virgin galactic spacex and blue origin are just three of the companies poised to offer space missions to private astronauts.
There are several different types of space tourism including orbital suborbital and lunar space tourism. To date orbital space tourism has been performed only by the russian space agency. With passenger space travel becoming a routine activity outer space needed a destination website just like any other travel destination.
This is being done by aerospace companies like blue origin and virgin galactic. Virgin galactic recognizes that the answers to many of the challenges we face in sustaining life on our beautiful planet lie in making better use of space. Blue origin the rocket venture founded by jeff bezos launched its space tourism rocket from its west texas test site to the edge of earth s atmosphere on tuesday.
Space tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes. Work also continues towards developing suborbital space tourism vehicles. The space tourism industry is officially open for business and tickets are going for a mere 20 million for a one week stay in space.
Despite reluctance from nasa russia made american businessman dennis tito the world s first space tourist. A one stop destination for all of your space tourism needs and information.