Affordable space tourism just a decade away

#SPACE tourism won’t be a fantasy for much longer, former NASA astronaut Don Thomas tells the Daily Telegraph: 

‘It's going to happen. Virgin Galactic may be the first. Sub-orbital flights that go to about 85 miles – for five minutes of zero gravity, and to show you the black sky and the curvature of the earth. I would guess they will be launching in the next two years. And then there are other companies, like SpaceX, which has been sending supplies to the international space station, and is due to start sending crews next year.

‘Shortly after that, I would anticipate they will send paying customers. It's beginning to open up. You're going to see the price drop. To go to the space station now, as a tourist, – you pay the Russians $65 million. With Virgin Galactic, the price comes down to a quarter of a million dollars. I would think that, in a decade or so, you will see flights to space for $10,000 to $15,000. Space travel will be more in line with an exotic trip to Antarctica.

‘It will still be a lot of money, but it will be within reach. It won't just be for millionaires and billionaires.’

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