Outer space tourism competitors making trip more affordable

Outer space vacation is a step closer to commonplace following Virgin Galactic’s most recent success-ful test flight on Oct. 11. Virgin Galactic will battle for customers with a Boeing/Space Adven-tures partnership offering rides on a new capsule being developed by the aerospace heavy-weight. The prospect of a flight in space is becoming less outlandish for more people as technological innovation and competition are putting downward pressure on prices. Post resource – Space tourism more accessible as competition drives down price by Personal Money Store.

Visiting space the very first time

Space tourism got a major shot in the arm when Virgin Galactic completed a flaw-less test flight of VSS Enterprise, the first manned commercial spacecraft. Based on Cable News Network, Virgin Galactic is ahead of every person else. The very first commercial spaceflight line will like-ly come from them. 370 consumer deposits in the amount of $200,000 came in to the company. That means it has $50 million for spending. Space Adven-tures can be the eventual competitors of Virgin with a price of $102,000 being advertised already. It is about $40 million to get a space travel and leisure package on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft which involves being at the international outer space station a few days.

Space travel and leisure competition heats up

Spaceflight is what the Boeing business works with. This has been done for a long time. The Seattle Post Intelligencer explains that Boeing is in agreement with Space Adventures to work with space travel and leisure packages that will all be on the Boeing Crew Space Transporation-100, which is the CST-100. The CST-100 was used to get astronauts to the international space station originally. Space Adventures will broker seats within the capsule for private in-dividuals. Multiple rockets can have the CST-100 on it, and seven individuals fit at a time. The spacecraft should be operational before 2015.

Don’t gain anything when nevertheless eating

There is a Russian businessman with large plans. He wants to build the first outer space hotel before 2016. A private space ho-tel for up to seven individuals at a time may be built by Sergei Kostenko, CEO of Orbital Technologies, reports the Associated Press. Orbital Technologies states the first hotel built in outer space can be “designed specifically for tourists.”. It will be more comfortable than the international space station because crowding it with scientific equipment won’t be necessary. 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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