Space travel

With a tour price of $ 200,000 per person, each SpaceShipTwo (SS2) will take six tourists to a height of 130-140km to observe the Earth for 2.5 hours. Or vice versa, people will buy tours to the sea floor watching the aquarium. The prospect of such tours is not far away .

$ 200,000, a trip

Virgin Galactic is one of several companies in the race to sell tours to anyone who wants to travel space.The company's plan is based on 2004's successful flights of SpaceShipOne, one of the world's first spacecraft invested by the private sector.

With many travelers of many money, vacation trips to separate islands, the adventures on the vast African steppe or icy polar region were too familiar, even boring. They will have the opportunity to taste completely new tours, seemingly unimaginable but about to come true: flying into immense space or down to the deep sea.

The most talked about and noisy of space travel is their two Virgin Galactic Companies: Burt Rutan - American aeronautical engineer, and businessman Richard Branson - the ambitious Virgin Company founder with the prospect of the future according to Branson:

'Most of our descendants will be able to fly into space'.

In the near future, Burt Rutan and Richard Branson aim to launch SS2 ships that the crew consists of eight: two pilots and six passengers into space. The flight will last for two hours, giving guests a full view of the Earth and experiencing a state of gravity.

The design of the SS2 by Burt Rutan is similar in size to a commercial jet (1.9m high, 2.2m wide). When flying to a height of more than 15km, a missile will be launched so that the ship reaches a speed of about 5,600km / g, elevating 130km and beyond the atmosphere. Passengers will have about four minutes of zero gravity before the ship drops back to Earth.

Mr. Richard Branson (Photo: TTO)

USD 200,000 is too soft compared to the huge amount of USD 20 million that billionaire entrepreneurs had to spend before to fly into space with Space Adventures Company. The company cooperates with the Russian Space Agency to bring tourists to visit the international space station by Soyuz TMA spacecraft and visitors will live in the International Space Station for 10 days. Despite such high prices, Space Adventures has received more than 100 orders from the rich who want to fly in immense space. The most recent visitor of Space Adventures is Iranian-American businesswoman Anousheh Ansari.

Diagram of a space trip (Photo: TTO)

According to a Virgin Galactic spokesperson, more than 150 people have registered to fly with the company and about 30,000 more people really want to travel to space. But Virgin is not alone in exploiting extraterrestrial travel.

The competitor model Virgin Galactic has many competitors such as Jeff Berzos, the founder of Amazon.com, has just tested a personal space ship in western Texas; or John Carmack, co-author of the online game Doom and Quake, is also testing spacecraft missiles near Dallas . And New Mexico state wants to be the same place as Cape Canavaral to bring visitors into the universe.

Since Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space in 1961, NASA has controlled all US space flights and turned the universe into a sacred place, only those selected by the US government. Newly honored to fly out of the atmosphere.

Since then, fewer than 500 people have been allowed to fly by NASA, but now things are different and much more different: Sir Richard Branson plans to bring more than 1,000 people into space in the first year of operation. of Galactic Galactic

And the price of $ 200,000 per tourist will gradually decrease to the second year of this ambitious program, if you want to travel outside the space people only need to spend 20,000 USD. That's the way to "democratize space" according to chief executive Alex Tai of Virgin Galactic.

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Aerospace airports: Ready from 2008!

* North America:Washington National Airport is expanding to become a cosmopolitan airport, expected to welcome guests in 2012. Floating airport of Sea Launch Company, on Kiribati Island, Pacific, also has a travel program. space calendar.The launch center on Kodiak Island (Alaska, United States), Poker Flat (Alaska) Research Center, Vanderberg Air Base, Southwest Aerospace, Blue Origin Cosmodrome, Central - Dai Space Airport The Atlantic, the Florida air base and the Oklahoma Space Airport are working aggressively to welcome guests.

Washington National Space Airport (Photo: TTO)

* South America: France's Kourou Space Center in Guyane, and the Alcantara Rocket Launch Center of Brazil.

* Europe: Saragosse space base in Spain, Norway's Andoya base, Esrange base (Sweden) ready to operate since 2013. Russian space airports: Plesetsk, Kapustin Yar, dense especially Baikonur (Kazakhstan) who used to bring the first tourists into space with the price . ancient (20 million USD)!

* Ras al-Khaimah Space Airport (United Arab Emirates) is scheduled to open in 2012 for flights on orbit only lasting about 90 minutes.The priority of this base is flight training for Space Adventures Group.Africa also has San Marco space airport in Kenya.The aerospace airport also grows like mushrooms.Sonmiani rocket launch base of Pakistan, India's Satish Dhavan Space Center, Jiuquan Space Center, Xichang Space Center in Xinjiang of China, Wenchang Zoom Center in Hainan Island.North Korea has the Musudan Center, South Korea with Goheung Center, Japan with Uchinoura and Tanegashima space bases.

* Asia:

Especially the island nation of Singapore also has a huge aerospace airport, which has been operating since 2009. This will be a space tourism center for both Southeast Asia and a branch of Space Adventures Group.Australia also has a spaceport located on Christmas Island.And Vietnam?

Singapore's Cosmopolitan Airport (Photo: TTO)

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