Competitors in space travel and leisure sector decreasing price tag

Outer space travel and lei-sure is a step closer to commonplace following Virgin Galactic’s most recent success-ful test flight on Oct. 11. Virgin Galactic won’t hold a monopoly on outer space vacation. Competitors will come from Outer space Adventures, a company marketing seats on a new capsule being developed by Boeing. Prices for outer space vacation are going down without a flight as new technology is developed by more corporations entering the arena to compete for customers.

And now we have been to space

Space tourism got a major shot within the arm when Virgin Galactic completed a flaw-less test flight of VSS Enterprise, the very first manned commercial spacecraft. CNN accounts that Virgin Galactic has a head start in becoming the world’s first commercial spaceflight line. 370 consumer deposits in the amount of $200,000 came in to the business. That means it has $50 million for spending. Even-tually Virgin can have competitors from Space Adventures, which is marketing suborbital outer space travel and leisure for about half that price: $102,000. You can get a ride on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft including a couple of days at the international space station. Of course, you’d have to pay $40 million for this package.

More competitors for space tourism

The Boeing Business has been involved in spaceflight for several decades. The Seattle Post Intelligencer explains that Boeing is in agreement with Space Adventures to work with space vacation packages that will all be on the Boeing Crew Outer space Transporation-100, which is the CST-100. The CST-100 had been used to get astronauts to the international outer space station initially. Space Adventures can be in charge of booking the seats. This will give private individuals rides. Multiple rockets can have the CST-100 on it, and seven people fit at a time. Boeing expects the spacecraft to be operational by 2015.

Eat a lot however don’t gain even one pound

There is a Russian businessman with large plans. He wants to build the first outer space hotel before 2016. A private space ho-tel for up to seven people at a time may be built by Sergei Kostenko, CEO of Orbital Technologies, reports the Associated Press. This hotel in outer space will be “designed specifically for tourists” says Orbital Technologies. It could be more comfortable than the international outer space station because crowding it with scientific equipment probably will not be necessary. There would be dishes made on Earth for a weightless dining experience with zero gravity by celeb chefs.

Information from

CNN

cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/15/space.tourism/index.html?npt=NP1

Seattle PI

blog.seattlepi.com/airlinereporter/archives/221874.asp

Associated Press

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