Competitors in outer space travel and leisure industry lowering price tag

Space tourism is months from reality after a successful milestone test of Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spacecraft on Oct. 11. Virgin Galactic won’t hold a monopoly on outer space tourism. Competitors will come from Outer space Adventures, a company marketing seats on a new capsule being developed by Boeing. Technological advances and also the prospect of competition within the marketplace are driving down outer space travel and leisure prices even before the very first flight has been launched.

Going to outer space more than once

The first manned commercial spacecraft was the VSS Enterprise which was made by Virgin Galactic. That is what begun outer space vacation. According to CNN, Virgin Galactic is ahead of every-one else. The first commercial spaceflight line will like-ly come from them. The business has collected 370 customer deposits for the $200,000 flight totaling fifty million dollars. Outer space Adventures is marketing a price of $102,000. That means they can be the biggest space tour-ism competition for Virgin. Currently, a space tourism package aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that including a few days at the international space station is going for $40 million.

Competitors with space travel and lei-sure getting dramatized

There have been decades of the Boeing Business working in space-flight. Outer space Adventures and Boeing are working together for making space tourism possible. The plans are to use the Boeing Crew Outer space Transportation-100, or CST-100, for the flights. The CST-100 had been used to get astronauts to the international space station originally. Private individuals can be able to buy seats on the capsule via Space Adventures. There is room for seven people on the CST-100. It can be put on numerous rockets too. Boeing expects the spacecraft to be operational by 2015.

Eating a lot and not gaining

A Russian businessman plans to build the first space hotel by 2016. The Associated Press reports that Sergei Kostenko, CEO of Orbital Technologies, announced his intentions to build a private space hotel accommodating up to seven people. Orbital Technologies says the first hotel built in space can be “designed specifically for tourists.”. It could be more comfortable than the international outer space station because crowding it with scientific equipment won’t be necessary. Celeb chefs would be responsible for the meals. A zero gravity dining experience is possible.

Articles cited

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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