The former British international, David Beckham, could become the first footballer to reach space, the British star being in talks with a specialized carrier,
Sources close to David and Victoria Beckham (photo) have told the British press that former Manchester United captain has already had the first talks on eccentric travel with representatives of a space transportation company. "It's something he has been thinking about for a long time. David was more cautious in the past, but now that space travel is becoming more and more close to reality, he really takes such an experience seriously," said the source for The Sun. Beckham, now 43 years old and father of four children, could even jog a little with the ball during this trip. A major impediment will be the lack of gravity attraction, but it seems that no one considers this aspect. In the chase after promotion, space transportation companies are looking for stars for such trips. Richard Branson, the head of Vigin Galactic, claims that in the very near future his company will organize space travel flights up to 100 kilometers altitude.
International Space Station will accept tourists
The International Space Station (ISS) will be open to private companies and tourists by 2020, NASA announced, seeking ways to withdraw from the financial commitment of the space outpost, according to BBC, quoted by Mediafax.
" NASA opens the International Space Station to commercial opportunities ," said Jeff DeWit, chief financial officer at the Nasdaq headquarters in New York .
"NASA will annually authorize up to two short missions with private astronauts," said Robyn Gatens, one of NASA officials in charge of the ISS.
The missions will take up to 30 days , can be carried out by citizens of any nationality, but will reach the outer outpost exclusively with the help of the two US private companies currently developing transport vehicles: SpaceX, the Crew Dragon Capsule, and Boeing, with the Starliner capsule. Theoretically, capsules should be operational at the end of 2019, but they should be tested.
These companies choose their customers and issue the transport bill, which will be the most expensive part of the adventure, about $ 58 million for a round trip . This is the average fare that NASA pays for transporting its own astronauts.
NASA will account for orbit, food, water, toilets, life support onboard the station, cost approximately $ 35,000 per night, per astronaut , Jeff DeWit announced.
The ISS does not belong to NASA, the station has been built since 1998 with Russia, and over the years the two nations have joined them. Currently, it is a $ 100 billion space project, funded mainly by the United States of America and involving 16 countries. The station is permanently occupied, since November 2000, by joint crews. The ISS is in terrestrial orbit at an altitude of 400 kilometers, making a complete rotation around the Earth every 90 minutes, navigating at an average speed of 28,000 kilometers / hour. Weighing over 408 tons, the ISS offers a living space equivalent to that of a Boeing 747.
ISS was also visited by space tourists, the first US businessman Dennis Tito in 2001. He paid Russia about $ 20 million to get to ISS. Others followed, most recently Canadian Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, in 2009.
Since 2011, Russian Soyuz capsules are the only means of transporting people to ISS and have led to space outposts exclusively for space agency employees.
What NASA does not offer is transporting space. Those who want to get to the ISS will have to use the services of private companies. SpaceX and Boeing are working on such solutions, which will probably turn them into solutions for the public. However, transport costs are much lower than those for accommodation. A race to the Space Station may cost up to $ 60 million.
Another interesting announcement about the International Space Station is that it will be able to host new private modules. Interested companies will be able to build and attach their own new areas to the Space Station where they will be able to operate. Of course, these activities will have to be scientific, NASA having strict rules on what can be done on board the station.
Bigelow Aerospace, a Las Vegas-based company in Nevada, is already planning to use SpaceX missiles to transport up to four people to the Space Station in one go. It was also visited by seven tourists in the past on Russian-organized trips, according to The Times. The station's activity will not be interrupted by tourists, American scientists present there with the aim of helping NASA send an astronaut to the Moon by 2024. For commercial and marketing activities, companies that want to use the Station will have to prove that they need the specially low-gravity environment they offer "to enable the manufacturing, production or development of a commercial application."
Russia wants to resume the transportation of tourists to ISS in 2021.
Not only tourists will have access to ISS, but also private companies for "commercial and marketing activities."
NASA wants to give up the financial support of the ISS in 2020, hoping that this task will be taken over by the private sector.
The agency wants to save money for the Artemis mission, which involves the return of the American astronauts on the Moon in 2024, and sending the first people to Mars.
A new ship for space tourism was launched
Virgin Galactic, the company British billionaire Richard Branson wants to hold the orbital flights for tourism. Its owner has announced that it will present the new version of the spacecraft Spaceship Two, which collapsed in 2014, informs directmatin.fr.
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Year 2019 may be the one in which the first tourists will fly outside the atmosphere, and Jeff Bezos has already prepared a price list for his exclusive service on board the New Shepard space module. The Blue Origin stage is not yet known from a technological point of view, this being kept secret so far. Bezos plans to demand between $ 200,000 and $ 300,000 on a space ticket, which is quite affordable, considering that such a trip seemed inconceivable just a few years ago.
The New Shepard Module is designed to carry six passengers at an altitude more than 100 kilometers above sea level in the low orbit of the planet. Flight should be enough for tourists to experience a few minutes of imponderability and see the Earth as a whole until New Shepard returns to the ground using the parachutes. The capsule also has six observation windows, which are three times larger than conventional ones used for planes. So far, Blue Origin has successfully passed over eight flight tests to finish take-off and landing procedures, but none of these included the presence of a human crew on board, Business Insider notes.
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