Extreme Adventure Travel is about to take flight, and in doing so take well-to-do traveling public where no tourist has gone before. Indeed, they will boldly go, but they will also boldly pay for that opportunity, as well as take a little bit of risk as well. Private Space flight is alive and well and it's ready to take the game to a higher level.
Soon you will be able to take a trip around the moon, go stay in an orbiting expandable space hotel, or perhaps within the next decade or more take a trip to the Mars Colony, which maybe a one way excursion? Okay let's talk.
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Recently, there was an interesting piece on the Technology Review from MIT "Delta-V Blog" written by Brittany Sauser on May 6, 2011 titled; "A Trip Around the Moon: Yours for 0 Million - Space Adventures announces a tourist seat aboard a new moon mission," which stated
"Space Adventures, a commercial space company based in Virginia, will give you a seat on a trip around the moon. The company says one customer has already signed up for the mission. The "round-the-moon" participants will launch in a Russian Soyuz Spacecraft to the International Space Station where they will stay for 8-10 days before taking the 3.5 day trip to slingshot around the moon, coming within 100 kilometers of the surface. It will take a further 3.5 days to return to Earth."
And it looks as if this could occur as early as 2015-2016, however if you are willing to wait until 2022 to 2025 you might be able to catch a tourist trip to Mars, but you may not have the guarantee of coming back, would it still be worth it? For many it would. There was an interesting piece on this in the Wall Street Journal on May 14, 2011 titled; "How We Can Fly to Mars in This Decade-And on the Cheap The technology now exists and at half the cost of a Space Shuttle flight. All that's lacking is the political will to take more risks," by Robert Zubrin.
The article discussed SpaceX and their plans, and they are pretty confident they can pull it off. As most people who follow these things realize, humans have had the technology to go to Mars since the 1970s, but political will, and costs have stopped the attempt. That's too bad, but perhaps private space tourism can pick up where NASA and the Federal Budget left off? Indeed, I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.
Private Space Flight Traveling Out of This World MISSION VALLEY
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