space tourism
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Space Tourism
A Dream Comes True
Introduction
Name: Mohammad Kifayath ChowdhuryStudent Id: 1112023Level:2 Term:1Department: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Why choosing this topic?
Dreams
Outline• What is space tourism?• The past and present of Space Tourism.• What is the Future of space tourism ?
What is Space Tourism?
•Key Sectors for Space Tourism▫Transportation (Rockets, Capsules and
Planes)▫Accommodation (Hotels and Habitats)▫Entertainment
Space Walks Sight Seeing Sports?
▫Spaceports▫Training
Zero G
The Past of Space Tourism
• 30 April 2001 Space first became a Tourism Destination
• ST1 - Dennis Tito aboard a Soyuz capsule launched by Space Adventures
• $20 million price tag▫ 7 day return trip ▫ Stayed at the ungraded International
Space Station (no swimming pool or room service)
▫ Apparently the service was poor (Tito was considered a Cosmonaut and not an Astronaut thus the yanks on ISS were less than friendly)
▫ All inclusive – bed, breakfast, lunch, dinner, oxygen & Spacesuit (Tips not included )
• Between 2001 and 2007, 4 more Space Tourists – all at a $20 million price tag!!!▫ST2 Mark Shuttleworth▫ST3 Greg Olson▫ST4 Anousheh Ansari▫ST5 Charles Simonyi
• In 1997, NASA published a report concluding that selling trips to space to private citizens could be worth billions of dollars.
• A Japanese report supports these findings, and projects that space tourism could be a $10 billion per year industry
within the two decades.
• The only obstacles to opening up space to tourists are the space agencies, who are concerned with safety and the development of a reliable, reusable launch vehicle.
The Present
The present
• Several Commercial Companies have been / still are involved in preparation for a burgeoning Space Tourism market:▫ Armadillo Aerospace
Suborbital Spacecraft▫ Space Dev
Dream Chaser – Jim Benson designer passed away▫ Blue Origin
New Shepard - Manned Rocket Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)
▫ RocketPlane XPSub-Orbital flights offered at $250,000
▫ Virgin/Scaled CompositesVirgin Galactic - $200,000
▫ Space Adventures Only company that has fulfilled so far – current cost of the same package is now $30 - $40 million
▫ Space FleetSpace Vehicles
▫ SpaceXFalcon & Dragon Capsule – Elon Musk (Paypal)
▫ XCORSpace Planes
Dream Chaser
Virgin Galactic- Space Ship 2• A brave project by virgin
galactic.• Designed by famous
American spacecraft designer Burt Rutan.
• Carried up to 15km by a multibodied plane called
White Knight 2, designed by Rutan.
• 6 passenger and two pilots.• Highest speed 4000 km/hr• Will take off from Space port
America, New Mexico, first space port ever for private sector space tourism.
• Space ship 2 will carry it’s passenger to a tremendous height of 115 km, across the Karman line.
• 5 minutes experience of ‘ Zero gravity’
• 2 hours space tour will cost you 200000 $ !
• Already 530 people booked their seats.
• 1st commercial flight of SS2 is planned to take off at the end of year 2014.
• Price will fall in the near future. Space port America
The future
▫The Average cost of a space package was $20 million .
▫Virgin, RocketPlane and others are selling Space trips from $0.2 million Cost of going to space down 99% since 2009
▫Virgin estimates that after 1,000 trips cost will come down to $20,000 – another 90% reduction, this may take 15 more years.
▫Bigelow is testing inflatable structures in Space right now
▫Boeing has announced entry by 2015▫Russians have announced a Space Hotel by 2016
(ISS without the science equipment)▫Point to Point opportunities will abound (Xmas at
the Ice Hotel, new years in Cape Town – travel time 2hrs)
Conclusion
Going to space was once a dream that was considered impossible and the dream has already come true. May be in the future every human will go to space as a part of their daily chores. Nothing in dream is really that hard to be impossible! So don’t get upset with your dreams. Dream more, wish more.
Thanks for listening to my presentation.
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