Commercial Space Travel

Space travel has long been a dream for people hoping to explore the area outside our planet.
Commercial space travel. Human passengers climbed aboard in 2001 when a financier named dennis tito. Elon musk ceo of spacex speaks during a news conference after the spacex falcon 9 demo 1 launch at the kennedy space. Hbo series set to explore the real story. Space craft name space craft type internal volume passenger capacity craft status orbit around ref axiom space.
Various surveys have suggested a willingness among many in the general public to spend considerable sums for the opportunity to experience space travel. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency. Genesis i subscale test spacecraft inflatable module 11 5 m 3 406 cu ft uncrewed derelict on orbit. There are several different types of space tourism including orbital suborbital and lunar space tourism.
Virgin galactic s flights from spaceport america involve a carrier aircraft that takes the spacecraft to an altitude of about 45 000 feet where it drops and then fires its rocket to climb into. How did space travel go commercial. Proposed 2016 earth bigelow aerospace. This is being done by aerospace companies like blue origin and virgin galactic.
Axiom international commercial space station rigid module 8. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Richard branson s virgin galactic and dutch founded xcor are among those who could take passengers up to. Another potential commercial application is the transport of fare paying passengers into space known as space tourism.
Virgin galactic recognizes that the answers to many of the challenges we face in sustaining life on our beautiful planet lie in making better use of space. In less than ten years space travel on a. But two years later the us passed the commercial space launch act of 1984 clearing the pad for more private activity. Private space flight travel can definitely be called as an emerging industry and it plays an integral role in the way we see the universe today.
In addition spacex announced in 2018 that they are planning on sending space tourists incl.