{"id":1247,"date":"2022-08-25T17:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galagents.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2022-08-25T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T17:35:50","slug":"three-easy-questions-to-finally-understand-space-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxy.travel\/blog\/three-easy-questions-to-finally-understand-space-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Three easy questions to finally understand Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years passed into the 20<\/span>th<\/span> century when the Wright brothers took off the first airplane and made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, changing our history and way of life. The same happened with the space race in the mid-century and the first step into the moon that Neil Armstrong took in 1969.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, a few decades into the 21<\/span>st<\/span> century, the way of traveling is evolving, and the outer world is closer than ever for us to experience. Maybe it’s not as futuristic as the Jetsons or Star Trek, but we\u2019re not as far from them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we hope to open your eyes to a tourism micro-niche that is getting more and more buzz among millionaires, but that eventually, as happened with commercial flights, will become affordable for other segments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you ready to be launched?<\/span><\/p>\n

1. What\u2019s Space Tourism?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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According to <\/span>Levi Henderson and Kan Tsui (2019)<\/span><\/a>, space tourism is a niche in the aviation industry that allows people to become astronauts and experience space for recreational, leisure, and business purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, since the suborbital flights of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, this type of tourism has become feasible for everyone with the desire and the money to do it. Not in vain, <\/span>Virgin Galactic<\/span><\/a> is offering its first commercial passenger flight in early 2023 to everyone who is adventurous, audacious, and curious enough to experience space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. How many types of Space Trips are?<\/span><\/h2>\n

If your idea of Space Tourism is about orbital trips, let us tell you that the current offer hasn\u2019t reached that level yet, only up to suborbital flights, such as:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. High-altitude jet fighter flights to the edge of space. <\/b>From here, you can see the curvature of the earth and the atmosphere as a blue fog covering the planet while having a breathtaking experience (<\/span>migflug.com<\/span><\/a>). But reaching the peak and seeing the world from above is not the only way a traveler can live. The 50 minutes journey includes some acrobats, breaking the sound barrier, and ultimately feeling like the pilot in the Top Gun movie. How is this experience? Watch the following video.\u00a0<\/span>\n