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The World’s First Civilian Space Walk and First Space Hotel
Space studies are progressing at a very high speed in the world. In my previous articles, I have explained in detail the types of studies different countries are doing and the space race between the USA and Asia. However, now there is also a commercial dimension to this space race, and we can say that […]
Virgin Galactic Postpones its Commercial Suborbital Tourism Flights to 2023
Virgin Galactic is again postponing the start of commercial service of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane from late 2022 to early 2023, blaming the latest delay on supply chain and labor issues. In the company’s first quarter earnings release May 5, Virgin Galactic said it expected to start commercial flights of its VSS Unity spaceplane in […]
April 28, 2001: World’s 1st Space Tourist Launches to International Space Station
On April 28, 2001, the world’s first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The 60-year-old businessman and multimillionaire Dennis Tito funded his own trip to space, and it cost him $20 million. He originally signed a deal with a private company called MirCorp to fly to […]
Advancements in Space Balloons for Space Tourism
The future of space tourism may look nothing like the sterile, utilitarian white rooms imagined in the sci-fi staples we grew up with. Instead, it could be comfortable, familiar, and focused on fostering human connection and empathy, according to Space Perspective cofounder, co-CEO, and CTO Taber McCollum. Space Perspective: The space-tourism-via-balloon startup aims to capture […]
Space Tourism Flights Poised to Continue with Virgin Galactic in 2022
Space Tourism Flights Set to Continue with Virgin Galactic in 2022 2021 was a great year for aerospace as more space flights took place in 2021 than any other year in space history. Especially with the space tourism flights in 2021, it became possible for civils to access space. Virgin Galactic was one of these […]
History was made for Space Tourism and Commercial Spaceflight with Richard Bronson and his Spaceship 2 Flight
Today history was made when Richard Bronson with his Spaceship Two Unity 22 spaceship launched from New Mexico spaceport. Richard Bronson, who is the owner of the famous commercial space tourism company Virgin Galactic, flew to the edge of space (before low earth orbit begins) with his company officials to demonstrate the space flight capability […]
Orbital Assembly Opens New Production Facility to Accelerate the First Space Hotel Development
Orbital Assembly Corporation, the first large scale space construction company, today announced the opening of its new production facility in Fontana, California that develops the technologies and structures to build the world’s first space hotel with lunar levels of gravity between the Earth and the moon. In addition to serving as new corporate offices, the […]
Virgin Orbit Successfully Completes Test Flight Before its First Launch
The runway is now clear for Virgin Orbit’s first-ever launch. Virgin Orbit is a dedicated launch service for satellites with a mission to launch satellites into space in great numbers at low cost. On Sunday (April 12), the company completed the final test of its development program, sending its carrier plane, Cosmic Girl, aloft over the […]