SpaceX is the poster child of a new space age in which companies — rather than governments — carry the mantel of space exploration. The idea is that the private sector can drive innovation and bring down costs.
Dozens of other companies have similar visions. Branson's company, Virgin Galactic, and Bezos' Blue Origin are working to make suborbital joy rides — which cost significantly less money than orbital jaunts but still have a roughly quarter-million-dollar price tag — a routine experience. The company also says it's currently constructing the world's first commercial space station.
Space Adventures, the company behind the Russian-provided tourism missions of the early s, has also booked a flight with SpaceX. And it's scheduled a flight for Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa — the same person who booked the moon mission on SpaceX's Starship — on a Russian Soyuz rocket for December There's plans to film a few reality television shows: one a competition series that will send the winner to orbit, and another that would see MMA fighters duke it out in microgravity.
Tom Cruise, who also phoned in to chat with the Inspiration4 crew during their journey, also plans to shoot a movie on the ISS.
And dozens of other startups are advertising plans for ventures such as manufacturing facilities in space , space hotels , and sending tourists up in giant balloons. Whether or not those plans come to fruition remains to be seen. The history of private space exploration is speckled with far more failures than successes. It's still hugely expensive to get objects to space and the danger of space travel looms. If any one mission — whether a NASA or commercial mission — were to end in tragedy, it could hobble the industry for years to come.
As for space tourism, specifically, Aganaba said she does not foresee it becoming a mass market business. Does everyone needs to go to space?
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Chari, Maurer and Barron were all making their debut spaceflights with Wednesday's launch, becoming the th, th and st humans in space. Both Chari and Barron also are among the first group of 18 astronauts selected for NASA's upcoming Artemis missions, aimed at returning humans to the moon later this decade, over a half century after the Apollo lunar program ended.
NASA has extolled space station missions in low-Earth orbit as critical training grounds and incubators for technologies that will help achieve the goals of a sustainable lunar presence and eventual human flights to Mars. With the Crew Dragon flying autonomously through space at more than 17, miles per hour 27, kmph , the four astronauts were expected to have a meal and get some sleep before arriving at the space station to begin a six-month science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The latest mission also follows a flurry of recent high-profile astro-tourism flights, including the SpaceX launch in September of "Inspiration 4," the first all-civilian crew sent to orbit without a professional astronaut on board. The "Crew 3" team, on arriving at the space station, will be welcomed aboard by its three current occupants - two cosmonauts from Russia and Belarus and a U.
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