Cheap space travel

If you can't afford to spend $ 250,000 for a flight into space, you can choose a softer price if you just touch the edge of the space.

World View, a subsidiary in Arizona State (USA) of Paragon Space Development Group, is planning to develop a tour to the edge of the space at a price of 75,000 USD / trip, less than 1/3 of the cost if traveling by Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. At this price, visitors will be brought to an altitude of about 30,000m, exactly the stratosphere, much lower than SpaceShipTwo's expected height of 109,000m. There, they will have less sense of gravity, but in return the scene is the highlight of this trip.

World View participates in cheap space tourism market - (Photo: World View)

Visitors can sit on that altitude sipping drinks, watching the wonderful landscape spread out below towards the earth and the black veil of the universe. NBC News cited project co-chair and Paragon Chairman Jane Poynter: 'You can stay there for hours or days to study if necessary'. Ms. Poynter is confident that this service is better than other tours in the space market. It is expected that World View will start selling tickets in a few months. Compared to the original plan, this project was announced early by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to recognize a 4-ton payload compartment, including 6 seats for passengers and 2 seats Pilot, officially an astronaut ship.

Paragon plans to launch launches of World View in several places in the United States, and then deploy them worldwide. President Poynter and project co-founder Taber MacCallum refused to provide information about the departure base, but the document submitted to the FAA showed that the company is targeting Spaceport America space airport, located north of Las Cruces. , New Mexico state. Virgin Galactic is also a customer renting a berth at Spaceport America. If the SpaceShipTwo is taken to an appropriate height by the aircraft before it takes off from the earth's atmosphere, allowing Virgin Galactic passengers to experience a few minutes in a state of zero gravity and stunning scenery, World View will be taken to the sky by helium balloons. In order to ensure safety when answering, even though metal will be released during landing, it takes 20 to 40 minutes to touch the ground.

The low-cost space travel market is booming, and Virgin Galactic has sold about 650 times on SpaceShipTwo. While Virgin Galactic plans to launch commercial flights early next year, World View is expected to take about three years before it can officially bring visitors to the edge of space. Another private company, XCOR, is also preparing to launch a test flight to a height of 65,000m next year. And like Virgin Galactic, XCOR uses a ship carrier to lift the upper atmosphere, so it is twice as high as World View.