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Less Expensive Space Travel: Possible?

Posted Aug 26, 2006 at 02:49PM by Robert S. Listed in: Science Tags: Hong Kong, International Space Station, China, Federal Space Agency
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Want to fly out to space? If you have a cool 20 Mil on you, and you're in China, you can contact Hong Kong Space Travel for a reservation. The company is helping Space Adventures to open the upsurging Chinese Market to Space Tourism.

Hong Kong Space Travel is hooking up with Space Adventures. The started around 2001 when they booked Dennis Tito, an American tycoon, to go to the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, Russia's Federal Space Agency hooked up with Space Adventure and is in the process of sending more tourists into space.

The costs are the ones hampering most people from enjoying the trip to space. A 10 day trip to the ISS costs $20M, an 18-day ISS mission with a spacewalk is $35M. They're even planning a trip that will send two tourists fly around the side of the moon! Cost? $200M. In order to promote more people to join this tour, they're announcing that they'll be offering suborbital tours. The costs are cheaper, just about a $100K. However, they're still in the process of testing reusable launch vehicles for an hour-long space trek. Once they've chosen the launch vehicle, expect the 200 who have already reserved to go up into suborbital space.

So what's the connection with China? Space Adventures, through Hong Kong Space Travel, is planning to initiate and develop a working relationship with the China National Space Administration because of their cheaper rockets. They have a spacecraft called, Shenzhou, that has already completed two missions that may be integrated into Space Adventures's plans.

Time to save up for that suborbital flight!

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   by Chris (Unregistered) - 2006-08-27
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WOW!!

I cant belive ill go into space one day..

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