Space toerism one step closer to reality
geschreven door Tony Bosma
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30 Jul 2008 - 10:08, 952x gelezen | 0 reacties |
The 28th of July is a day which we will remember for a long time. This day will be in our historybooks as the the day when we saw our first aircraft which is able to launch us normal humans into space. A day which is very important for spacetoerism because it brings us a lot closer to the realisation of it. What happened exactly on the 28th of July?
Richard Branson and designr Burt Rutan showed their White Knight Two of Virgin Galactic named Eve to the world. This happened in Mojave, Californie. Looking at the future of travel this moment is essential. The company Scaled Composites is responsible for building Eve. Now Eve is shown at the public the waiting is for the plane which actually takes us into space and makes toerism possible. The first tests with Eve and spacetravel are planned in the end of 2009 and start 2010.
Eve is a enormous wing of 42 meter which takes the spacecraft at the height of 50.000 ft. After Eve has reached this height is launches the spacecraft which climbs towards a height of 360.000 ft. What a hell of a view will that be
. Hope they used the technology of the self healing airplanes .
For those who want to plan this for a teambuilding session the costs of a ticket are 200.000 dollar. There are already 200 tickets sold. I believe that spacetoerism will within 10 - 15 years will become affordable for 'everyone'. What do you think?
Source picture: Artist impression of Eve dropping SpaceShipTwo at an altitude of 50,000 ft (Virgin Galactic)
More information: Virgin Galactic
Richard Branson and designr Burt Rutan showed their White Knight Two of Virgin Galactic named Eve to the world. This happened in Mojave, Californie. Looking at the future of travel this moment is essential. The company Scaled Composites is responsible for building Eve. Now Eve is shown at the public the waiting is for the plane which actually takes us into space and makes toerism possible. The first tests with Eve and spacetravel are planned in the end of 2009 and start 2010.
Eve is a enormous wing of 42 meter which takes the spacecraft at the height of 50.000 ft. After Eve has reached this height is launches the spacecraft which climbs towards a height of 360.000 ft. What a hell of a view will that be
. Hope they used the technology of the self healing airplanes . For those who want to plan this for a teambuilding session the costs of a ticket are 200.000 dollar. There are already 200 tickets sold. I believe that spacetoerism will within 10 - 15 years will become affordable for 'everyone'. What do you think?
The rollout represents another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the world's first private, environmentally benign, space access system for people, payload and science. - Virgin Galactic rollout press release (July 28th)
Source picture: Artist impression of Eve dropping SpaceShipTwo at an altitude of 50,000 ft (Virgin Galactic)
More information: Virgin Galactic
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