Space Tourism

Have You Ever Wanted To Travel To Space?

It is my dream to one day travel to space, how about you? Although many of us in this class do not have any aspiration to be a rocket scientist or have another dream other than being an astronaut, there are other options to be able to leave this planet and explore the unknown.

Space tourism have taken 40 years to become possible starting at a price of around $12,000 in 1964 to a jaw dropping $50 million today. So for me my dream of traveling to space has to go on hold until I hit the lottery. However, a space tourism company called Virgin Galactic is willing to take any healthy person into sub-orbit for $250,000.

A duel plane flies the actual space aircraft to a certain height and then releases it. The space aircraft then falls and boosters on the back propels the ship upwards until it gets to the ideal point for orbit.

I encourage everyone to take a look at what Virgin Galactic has to offer, although it may not be in many of our budgets today; on the contrary, it may be on one of our to do  list for the future. Not to mention those who are not sure what they want to do in the future may take an interest in this growing field of profession.Click Here to check out Virgin Galactic’s website it has cool videos and additional information about training, cost, the history behind it as well as brochures.

 

 

2 thoughts on “Space Tourism

  1. Ryan Thomas Byrne

    Maybe your true dream of going to space can be achieved for even less! Even though this opportunity is not actually going to space you still get that zero gravity experience for around $5000. Check out the link to these awesome zero G flights. http://www.gozerog.com

  2. Tiffany Elizabeth Breon

    This is pretty neat! I’d heard about something like this coming up in the near future but I didn’t know it would be here this soon! Yeah, I have to admit, it is very expensive but I can’t say I didn’t expect that. I did some research and I saw that some music artists are taking advantage of this (seeing as they have loads of money) and they are looking into doing tours from space! According to CNN they plan to launch their services to citizens by the end of this year.

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