High-tech bringing space travel down to earth
Space travel? Is high-tech bringing it very close to affordability?
In the past, space travel has largely been restricted to trained astronauts working in big budget government programs sponsored by NASA. But recently there have been exceptions though only the wealthiest could afford the trip.
“Today, all that’s changing. We are now on the cusp of a new era in which space travel becomes a viable commercial enterprise with technologies to make it safe and possible, competition to bring prices down, and luxury space hotels in orbit to enable extended stays,” says TechNewsWorld.
“The thing that’s happening in the industry nowadays is that what seemed like fantasy when we were all growing up is now becoming real with the commercial launch industry,” said Marc Timm, program executive for NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. He added:
“Now there are ways you can actually see that in the future, you’ll be able to do it. It’s becoming a lot more concrete.”
Market research indicates there’s a healthy demand.
In as far back as the early 1990s, surveys have found that as many as 70% of travelers want to go to space — almost half of the respondents in one survey said they would pay three months’ salary to do so, according to Space Future.
Report by David Wilkening
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