Space tourism is another niche segment of the aviation industry that seeks to give tourists the ability to become astronauts and experience space travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes. Since space tourism is extremely expensive, it is a case of a very small segment of consumers that are able and willing to purchase a space experience. There are several options for space tourists. For example, Crouch et al. (2009) investigate the choice behaviour between four types of space tourism: high altitude jet fighter flights, atmospheric zero-gravity flights, short-duration suborbital flights, and longer duration orbital trips into space. Reddy et al. (2012) find the following motivational factors behind space tourism (in order of importance): vision of earth from space, weightlessness, high speed experience, unusual experience, and scientific contribution. Currently, only high-altitude jet fighter flights and atmospheric zero-gravity flights are commercially available to tourists in the space tourism sector. Accordingly, this section provides an example of each


00:00 ● Intro - Lexus SKYJET Valerian
Lexus Reveals Closer Look at the SKYJET with New Spots and Featurette

👉• https://www.alphasquad.studio/


00:38 ● 1. Dream Chaser
The Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space System is set to be produced after the cargo variant, Dream Chaser Cargo System, is operational. The crewed variant is capable of carrying up to seven people and cargo to and from low Earth orbit.

The cargo Dream Chaser is designed to resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. It is intended to launch vertically on the Vulcan Centaur rocket[ and autonomously land horizontally on conventional runways. A proposed version operated by ESA would launch on Ariane 5.

👉• https://www.sncorp.com/what-we-do/dream-chaser-space-vehicle/


03:49 ● 2. PriestmanGoode's Neptune balloon
6 hours, 8 passengers, 98,425 feet, 1 truly transformative human experience. We’re working with the Paragon Space Development Corporation on World View Experience, a project to take passengers on flights to the edge of space, where they will be able to observe the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space.

👉• https://www.priestmangoode.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PriestmanGoode_Space_Perspective_PR_180620.pdf


06:07 ● 3. Bloon - The Near Space experience of a Lifetime - Zero 2 Infinity
Comfortably seated in a pleasant, intimate environment, you fly up to an altitude of 36 km to enjoy a spectacular view of our planet and learn about Earth in the most unique way

👉• https://www.zero2infinity.space/bloon/


07:02 ● 4. Crew Dragon | SpaceX
The SpaceX Dragon 2 is a class of reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX as the successor to Dragon 1, a reusable cargo spacecraft. There are two variants: Crew Dragon, a space capsule capable of ferrying up to seven astronauts, and Cargo Dragon, an updated replacement for the original Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft launches atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket and returns to Earth via an ocean splashdown. Unlike its predecessor, the spacecraft can autonomously dock to the International Space Station (ISS) instead of being berthed. Crew Dragon is equipped with an integrated launch escape system (LES) capable of accelerating the vehicle away from the rocket in an emergency at 11.8 m/s2 (39 ft/s2), accomplished using four side-mounted thruster pods, each with two SuperDraco engines. The spacecraft features redesigned solar arrays and a modified outer mold line compared to the original Dragon, and possesses new flight computers and avionics. As of March 2020, four operational Dragon 2 spacecraft have been manufactured (not including several unflown structural test articles).


👉• https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/



10:09 ● 5. Starship Earth to Earth | SpaceX
“The view of Earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.”

👉• https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/earth/index.html

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