06-09-2019, 08:05 AM
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48560874
NASA recently tweeted that they would open the International Space Station (ISS) up to tourists who want to visit space in 2020. They are looking to make space travel more accessible to regular people and have hired private companies to help with the construction of spacecrafts as well as crew safety and other features. The companies hired by NASA are SpaceX, which will use its Dragon capsule and Boeing, which will use its Starliner. They also announced the privatization of the ISS which contrasts to when they previously banned commercial use of the space station. The price for one person to stay on the ISS for one night would cost them $35K USD, a price which is very high for the average person, yet not very surprising, I would have expected a heftier cost. I think this announcement is a great step to introduce another mode of business that will take place beyond our skies and can further make it more accessible to us in the future. Who knows, maybe schools in a few decades will be going to space for field trips.
NASA recently tweeted that they would open the International Space Station (ISS) up to tourists who want to visit space in 2020. They are looking to make space travel more accessible to regular people and have hired private companies to help with the construction of spacecrafts as well as crew safety and other features. The companies hired by NASA are SpaceX, which will use its Dragon capsule and Boeing, which will use its Starliner. They also announced the privatization of the ISS which contrasts to when they previously banned commercial use of the space station. The price for one person to stay on the ISS for one night would cost them $35K USD, a price which is very high for the average person, yet not very surprising, I would have expected a heftier cost. I think this announcement is a great step to introduce another mode of business that will take place beyond our skies and can further make it more accessible to us in the future. Who knows, maybe schools in a few decades will be going to space for field trips.