After
career astronauts, will be the human tourists enjoy following weightlessness, menus earthling dehydrated and landscape from above with the sole mission to live an unforgettable experience that will surely rage on social networks .
Ticket price will, for now, available only for a few. The cheapest rate sale now stands at $ 95,000 per person for a suborbital flight.
commercial exploitation through private investment has become the great alternative to fund space exploration hitherto fed on expensive public programs paid by major world economies.
Gone are the days of the Apollo program that allowed Neil Armstrong take a moonwalk and more recently came to an end the era of ferries stopped leaving the maintenance cost. Vehicles like the Endeavour or Discovery went from engage the International Space Station (ISS) to park in U.S. museums
PROPOSALS FOR ALL TASTES
Now what you get is the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) of Virgin Galactic, the British tycoon Richard Branson the SpaceX Dragon, company founder of PayPal, Elon Musk, the Blue Origin New Shepard, a company of Amazon Jeff Bezos creator, or the Lynx, XCOR Aerospace, a former project built by Intel, Jeff Greason.
SS2 this week exceeded the sound barrier in a test flight that took off from California, USA, and as Branson said, his ship, an aircraft with capacity for 6 passengers and two pilots, is ready to on a space travel by the end of 2013.
“This is your first step to becoming an astronaut,” says the ticket sales page for the SS2 seats offered for $ 200,000 to participate in this shared suborbital trip, including space suit design and experience weightlessness.
Artists like Ashton Kutcher, Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie and Katy Perry are among the hundreds of people who have already left a deposit of $ 20,000 to guarantee a place in SS2, which is the most advanced prototype of all who compete to put tourists into orbit.
AND WHERE IS THE DRIVER?
XCOR is differentiated from its competitors promising “something really Astronaut” which is to lay the traveler in the cockpit of the Lynx by the modest price of $ 95,000 for a flight that will reach 100 miles high for a little over four minutes, but the vehicle will not be ready until late 2014.
XCOR
estimated that over the next 10 years there will be 20 operating Lynx and is currently seeking staff, in fact many workers this sector demand. Only Blue Origin has nearly 30 jobs today on its website.
Pioneers in thistransform the space into an amusement park were the founders of the company Space Adventures that between 2001 and 2009 hit book took seven individuals to the ISS aboard the Soyuz, including a Dennis Tito, the first space tourist who spent a week off planet.
Unlike its rivals, Space Adventures does not manufacture its own vehicles and has signed an agreement with Armadillo Aerospace to use your suborbital travel prototype, still in development, and offer tour packages for $ 102,000.
The company has designed a cruise to circumnavigate the moon to be held with Russian technology, although they have not given many details, while the British company Excalibur Almaz and Golden Spike American tourists will ensure your tread its surface Like Armstrong in 1969.
A COLONY ON MARS
SpaceX wants to go further and has set his sights on Mars. The Dragon capsule is chosen by the project One to send earthlings Mars the red planet on a journey of no return.
April 22 settlers began recruiting through internet. In just two days and there were 33,000 applications from people willing to leave behind forever his earthly life on Earth.
OneMars has been proposed to establish the first settlement in neighboring planet in 2023 and dealing with costs based advertising.
The project will be televised as a Big Brother, from start to finish, from the selection of the settlers up to the trip and subsequent Martian Chronicles.
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