7. • Key Sectors for Space Tourism
▫ Transportation (Rockets, Capsules and Planes)
▫ Accommodation (Hotels and Habitats)
▫ Entertainment
Space Walks
Sight Seeing
Sports?
▫ Spaceports
▫ Training
Zero G
9. • 30 April 2001 Space first became a
Tourism Destination
• ST1 - Dennis Tito aboard a Soyuz
capsule launched by Space
Adventures
• $20 million price tag
▫ 7 day return trip
▫ Stayed at the ungraded
International Space Station (no
swimming pool or room service)
▫ Apparently the service was poor
(Tito was considered a Cosmonaut
and not an Astronaut thus the yanks
on ISS were less than friendly)
▫ All inclusive – bed, breakfast, lunch,
dinner, oxygen & Spacesuit (Tips not
included )
10. • Between 2001 and 2007, 4 more
Space Tourists – all at a $20
million price tag!!!
▫ ST2 Mark Shuttleworth
▫ ST3 Greg Olson
▫ ST4 Anousheh Ansari
▫ ST5 Charles Simonyi
11. • In 1997, NASA published a report
concluding that selling trips to
space to private citizens could be
worth billions of dollars.
• A Japanese report supports
these findings, and projects
that space tourism could be
a $10 billion per year industry
within the two decades.
• The only obstacles to opening up
space to tourists are the space
agencies, who are concerned with
safety and the development of a
reliable, reusable launch vehicle.
13. • Several Commercial Companies have been / still are involved in preparation for a
burgeoning Space Tourism market:
▫ Armadillo Aerospace
Suborbital Spacecraft
▫ Space Dev
Dream Chaser – Jim Benson designer passed away
▫ Blue Origin
New Shepard - Manned Rocket
Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)
▫ RocketPlane XP
Sub-Orbital flights offered at $250,000
▫ Virgin/Scaled Composites
Virgin Galactic - $200,000
▫ Space Adventures
Only company that has fulfilled so far – current cost of the same
package is now $30 - $40 million
▫ Space Fleet
Space Vehicles
▫ SpaceX
Falcon & Dragon Capsule – Elon Musk (Paypal)
▫ XCOR
Space Planes
Dream Chaser
14. Virgin Galactic- Space Ship 2
• A brave project by virgin
galactic.
• Designed by famous American
spacecraft designer Burt
Rutan.
• Carried up to 15km by a
multibodied plane called
White Knight 2, designed by
Rutan.
• 6 passenger and two pilots.
• Highest speed 4000 km/hr
• Will take off from Space port
America, New Mexico, first
space port ever for private
sector space tourism.
15. • Space ship 2 will carry
it’s passenger to a
tremendous height of
115 km, across the
Karman line.
• 5 minutes experience
of ‘ Zero gravity’
• 2 hours space tour will
cost you 200000 $ !
• Already 530 people
booked their seats.
• 1st commercial flight of
SS2 is planned to take
off at the end of year
2014.
• Price will fall in the
near future.
Space port America
17. ▫ The Average cost of a space package was $20
million .
▫ Virgin, RocketPlane and others are selling Space
trips from $0.2 million
Cost of going to space down 99% since 2009
▫ Virgin estimates that after 1,000 trips cost will
come down to $20,000 – another 90% reduction,
this may take 15 more years.
▫ Bigelow is testing inflatable structures in Space
right now
▫ Boeing has announced entry by 2015
▫ Russians have announced a Space Hotel by 2016
(ISS without the science equipment)
▫ Point to Point opportunities will abound (Xmas at
the Ice Hotel, new years in Cape Town – travel time
2hrs)
19. Going to space was once a dream that was
considered impossible and the dream has already
come true. May be in the future every human will go
to space as a part of their daily chores. Nothing in
dream is really that hard to be impossible! So don’t
get upset with your dreams. Dream more, wish
more.
