The space is everything that exists from a distance of 100 km from the earth. It has not been a conventional travel destination so far, but has been visited many times by explorers.
Since the foundation of the so-called Ansari Prize in 1996, the first successful flights of a private spaceship over the 100 km limit in August and October 2004, as well as the establishment of the company "Virgin Galactic", the first serious preparations for tourist development have been underway in 2007 at three times the speed of sound at an altitude of 120 kilometers, where the five travelers stay for about 2 hours. The flights will cost around 170,000 euros.
The space travel agencies Space Adventures, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have space flights up to the ISS space station (approx. 390 km above the earth), suborbital space flights at an altitude of approx. 100 km, space walks and flights to the moon in their program.
On earth
There are some places on earth that are related to space or space travel:
- Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin started here, today they still start here regularly Soyuz-Rakten. Visits to the launch pad are now possible through travel agencies.
- Huntsville, Alabama, United States. Astronaut training center.
- Cape Canaveral, Florida, UNITED STATES. The space shuttle took off from here
- Houston, Texas, UNITED STATES. Mission Control for the Space Shuttle and the activities on the International Space Station.
- Kourou, French Guiana. Home of the Center Spatial Guyanais spaceport, from which the European Space Agency ESA operates.
- Mojave, California, UNITED STATES.
- Weßling (near Munich), Germany. European Space Agency's Columbus Control Center
- Cologne and Oberpfaffenhofen are locations of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Darmstadt is the location of ESA's European Space Control Center (ESOC)
- Star City, Russia. Cosmonaut Training Center northeast of Moscow.
- Tanegashima, Japan. Japan's spaceport.
trips
The only currently accessible tourist destination in space is International space station (ISS).
The Chinese space station Tiangong 2, the moon and the Mars are not conventional travel destinations.
