Nowadays many of the airliners shipping passengers around the world will now be carrying passengers to low Earth orbit. Boeing declared today it has signed a memo of agreement with Space Adventures to extend and market the private space travels. Space Adventures is the companionship that has put together numerous orbital trips for private individuals to the International Space Station.
The companies have not proclaimed what the cost of a travel to orbit will be, or when the first rides will take place. Trips could include vacations to the ISS or to other orbital stations to be constructed in the future. Boeing is already associated with Bigelow Aerospace on a profitable space-station program to be built shortly in the decade.
The passenger air travels will take place on commercial trips on board the Boeing team Space Transportation-100 spacecraft to low earth orbit. In addition to those with sufficient money, rides will also be accessible to companies, nonprofits and centralized agencies in addition to NASA. The seven-passenger spacecraft is estimated to be operational by 2015.
The statement from Boeing is the first from one of the existing, large space-contractor corporations to offer transportation to space for private individuals. Space Adventures has formerly contracted with the Russian space agency to suggest rides to orbit. Those rides happening at $20 million, but costs have increased to as high as $40 million for a single passenger.
The conformity with Boeing is likely to generate some competition for the Russians and may help to maintain costs down for cargo and passengers. Unknown space launch company SpaceX has also talked about transporting passengers to low earth orbit.
In the future the company is paying attention on delivering cargo payloads to the ISS, but SpaceX’s Dragon container is expected to carry passengers to orbit as well.
For suborbital passenger flights, Virgin Galactic released a new video at present with information about the company’s space flights aboard VSS Enterprise (aka SpaceShipTwo).
Some hundreds of people have previously signed up for the flights, which will include several minutes of lightness and views of Earth from more than 65 miles above the surface.
The companies have not proclaimed what the cost of a travel to orbit will be, or when the first rides will take place. Trips could include vacations to the ISS or to other orbital stations to be constructed in the future. Boeing is already associated with Bigelow Aerospace on a profitable space-station program to be built shortly in the decade.
The passenger air travels will take place on commercial trips on board the Boeing team Space Transportation-100 spacecraft to low earth orbit. In addition to those with sufficient money, rides will also be accessible to companies, nonprofits and centralized agencies in addition to NASA. The seven-passenger spacecraft is estimated to be operational by 2015.
The statement from Boeing is the first from one of the existing, large space-contractor corporations to offer transportation to space for private individuals. Space Adventures has formerly contracted with the Russian space agency to suggest rides to orbit. Those rides happening at $20 million, but costs have increased to as high as $40 million for a single passenger.
The conformity with Boeing is likely to generate some competition for the Russians and may help to maintain costs down for cargo and passengers. Unknown space launch company SpaceX has also talked about transporting passengers to low earth orbit.
In the future the company is paying attention on delivering cargo payloads to the ISS, but SpaceX’s Dragon container is expected to carry passengers to orbit as well.
For suborbital passenger flights, Virgin Galactic released a new video at present with information about the company’s space flights aboard VSS Enterprise (aka SpaceShipTwo).
Some hundreds of people have previously signed up for the flights, which will include several minutes of lightness and views of Earth from more than 65 miles above the surface.
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