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- First space tourist: Dennis Tito, a multi-millionaire from California
- Pioneered by the Russian Space Agency
- Passengers would ride aboard a Russian rocket and stay in the International Space Station
- Cost for trip: $20 million
- Private companies such as Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace are developing suborbital passenger craft
- Commercial flights will begin as early as 2009 for Virgin Galactic,Reuters: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo model (January 23, 2008) and 2010 for XCOROfficial Press Release: XCOR Aerospace announces new... (March 26, 2008)
- Average cost for commercial flight into space: $200,000
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Space Tourism is a developing industry in which private citizens are transported from the surface of the Earth on flights into space.
To date such services have been available only through national space agencies, and the costs involved have been in the millions of dollars.
However private companies such as Virgin Galactic are developing reusable craft to enable short trips into space at much lower cost. These craft are also intended for use in launching satellites and other missions.
Most of those who have travelled into space at their own expense dislike the term "space tourism", pointing out that they undertook serious scientific work while on their journeys.
In June 2009, work began on Spaceport America, in New Mexico. This will be the launch site for several of the new space tourism companies.
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Space Tourism Questions
If you had enough money, would you pay to travel into space? 3 AnswersI would love to see the Earth from space. I think it maybe one the most beautiful experiences a human being can have, sadly it is not available for everyone. ... read more
How did Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin change the race to space? 1 AnswerSputnik and Yuri Gagarin changed the race to space in such a way that it sustained panic in the US over a perceived ‘missile gap’ ---------quote--------- The ... read more
Whod you pick to design your first space plane for Space Tourism? Will it be an aerospace engineer from Airbus or Boeing? 1 AnswerBoeing. Airbus has no experience (though EADS does have some) in space technology while Boeing has been a world leader in rocket and space technology. read more
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Space Tourism A Reality By 2012! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571787,00.html
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A Space Hotel : Impossible Science Project?: This is a huge step forward to space tourism. Naturally it would n.. http://bit.ly/64OLhq
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Space tourism {company in Barcelona } - http://www.galacticsuite.com/ ...first pace hotel in 2012 ..?
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now about space tourism..btw, i've dremt of becoming cosmonaut in my childhood..who haven't?)
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