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Space Tourism

Space tourism involves recreational space travel for individuals rather than professional astronauts. Several companies are involved in orbital and sub-orbital space tourism, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. Orbital tourism involves staying in low earth orbit on space stations, while sub-orbital flights go above 100 km. Long-term goals include lunar tourism flights looping around the moon. Legal and environmental concerns surround the emerging space tourism industry.

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Space Tourism

Space tourism involves recreational space travel for individuals rather than professional astronauts. Several companies are involved in orbital and sub-orbital space tourism, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic. Orbital tourism involves staying in low earth orbit on space stations, while sub-orbital flights go above 100 km. Long-term goals include lunar tourism flights looping around the moon. Legal and environmental concerns surround the emerging space tourism industry.

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Space Tourism

By: Atul Triplicane


What Is Space Tourism?

- Space Tourism is human space travel for recreational purposes

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Main Companies

- Russian Space Agency


- Blue Origin
- Virgin Galactic
- SpaceX
- Scaled Composites
- Space Adventures Ltd
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Orbital Space Tourism
Orbital Space Tourism
⋆ Space tourists stay within earth’s orbit
⋆ Typically fly from earth to an orbiting space station
⋆ Not just fun… Some do experiments in space
⋆ 2001 - 2009, 7 tourists made 8 flights on a Russian
Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space
Station.

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Sub-Orbital Space
Tourism
Sub-orbital Space Tourism

⋆ Kármán line: The altitude that represents the border


between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
⋆ It is 100 km (62 miles) high.
⋆ Sub-Orbital Space tourists go beyond Kármán line
⋆ “Scaled Composites” won the $10 million X Prize in
October 2004 for surpassing the Kármán line twice
within two weeks.
⋆ first flight was flown by Michael Melvill in June 2004
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Lunar Space Tourism
Lunar Space Tourism
⋆ SpaceX CEO Elon Musk planning a moon loop flight
using free-return trajectory
⋆ Space Adventures Ltd are also planning a lunar mission
⋆ SpaceX plans to send unpiloted Starship to Mars in
2022, crewed flight will follow in 2024
⋆ Jeff Bezos Blue Origin is developing a suborbital
reusable launch vehicle for short duration space
tourism for up to 6 passengers to the moon.
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Interesting Facts
about Space
Tourism:

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Interesting Facts
⋆ Space Adventures is the only company that
has sent paying passengers to space.
⋆ Orbital Space missions cost ~ 200-250
million USD
⋆ NASA is planning to charge ~35,000 USD
per astronaut, per day.

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Legality and environmental Impact
⋆ Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 - the launch operator's
nationality and the launch site's location determine the
country responsible for any damages occurred from a launch
⋆ US Govt. rules released in 2005 - screening procedures and
training for emergency situations, but not health
requirements.
⋆ commercial spaceflight industry could accelerate global
warming.
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Video
Here is a video to summarize everything I said

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWKyTYEFVGY

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Bibliography
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/space-tourism#ref1117983

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWKyTYEFVGY

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