Spaceflights For Tourists Could Be An Everyday Reality By 2030 The era of the space tourist has already begun. After what has seemed like an interminable wait, all three of the main privately owned space companies have made their inaugural flights. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic have both [...]
Virgin Galactic Grounded by US Regulators Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flight to space on July 11th 2021 was hailed at the time as a triumph. It was greeted by a worldwide blizzard of positive publicity. Yet now it appears that things did not go quite as smoothly as it first appeared. [...]
SpaceX Remain in the Space Tourism Race Recent events have made it seem as if the battle to launch regular tourist trips to space was a two horse race. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic had both launched their owners into space accompanied by a fanfare of worldwide publicity [...]
Space Perspective Offering A Different Kind Of Space Flight Experience For as long as humans have lived on earth, people have dreamed of journeying to the stars. The pioneering flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961 proved that it was possible. The astounding achievement of NASA’s Apollo moon landings less than a [...]
Space tourism reaches the launch pad at last After what seems like decades of PR bluster and over optimistic announcements, the phoney war is finally over. The summer of 2021 is the time when the commercial space tourism industry finally reaches the launch pad. In a replica of the Soviet Union and the [...]
The Gateway Foundation Space Hotel 2021 may seem a strange time to be thinking of a long distance holiday. It is a period when people throughout the world are unable to venture far from their homes. The Covid-19 pandemic will end eventually, but when even a trip to the shops can need careful [...]
Jeff Bezos To Fly To Space Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin technology company has set July 20th 2021 as the date for its first crewed space flight. In a cleverly timed move, the announcement came on May 5th, the sixtieth anniversary of the very first spaceflight by an American astronaut, Alan [...]
DearMoon - 8 Crew Members Wanted for Mission to the Moon There remains a massive credibility gap when it comes to talk about space tourism. Many people think the prospect of taking a trip to space is more ‘pie in the sky’ than ‘all systems go’. And even if it does happen, it [...]
Progress toward everyday private space travel has taken another mighty step forward. The Texan commercial space company Axiom has announced details of the proposed launch of its first all-private crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The four member crew is entirely civilian, although the trip will be commanded by ex-NASA astronaut and current [...]
SpaceX Getting Closer To Space Tourism The prospect of space tourism has been promised as ‘just over the horizon for what seems like years, maybe decades. And yet sometimes it may seem as if nothing much has been happening. Progress can seem slow, even non-existent. 2020 has been a momentous year in [...]
