Space tourism. Computer artwork of a crew member on a space tourism flight above the Earth. The spacecraft at centre is based on the SpaceShipOne design that won the Ansari X Prize by making its second ascent to 100 kilometres on 4 October 2004. Virgin Galactic is one of the companies developing plans for future space tourism. Virgin Galactic are building scaled-up versions of SpaceShipOne,and plan to begin flights in 2008. Flights will include seven minutes of weightlessness. Tickets could cost about £115,000 ($210,000),and include training for the flight. It is proposed that the first two Virgin SpaceShips will be called VSS Enterprise and VSS Voyager. Virgin Galactic plan to fly 500 passengers a year into space,and also have plans for a space hotel | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / 201010 |
Bildgröße: | 3500 px × 2100 px |
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