Space Adventures Offers (Relatively) Low Cost Space Travel

For people wanting to enter suborbital space, a company called Space Adventures is poised to dramatically lower the cost for a brief trip off-planet.

Space Adventures is developing a suborbital reusable launch vehicle that will cost it about $20 million to build and be able to ferry tourists into suborbital space for a few minutes at a cost of only $100,000 per person (which is a lot for people like me, but is relatively cheap in the big scheme of things).

I hope this company succeeds. It would be nice to see a viable space tourism industry develop to provide an alternative track for development other than the bloated space agencies attached to government’s around the world.

Space Adventures hopes to begin flights sometime between 2003-2005.

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