{"id":35574,"date":"2023-07-31T08:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T08:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/?p=34642"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:22:48","slug":"the-future-of-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entropymag.co\/the-future-of-space-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Dennis Tito, an American businessman became the first private individual to pay for his own trip into space in 2001. He paid $20 million to Russia to fly aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and spend a week aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In other words – he was the pioneer of space tourism as we know it today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In October 2022, Tito had again inked a deal to travel on a one-week journey aboard SpaceX\u2019s Starship spacecraft<\/a>, this time with his wife Akiko, and 10 other paying passengers. They will be flying a path that will take them around the far side of the moon. Traveling to space for vacations may not be affordable, but it sure is possible – thanks to space tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Humans started to realize their ambitions to conquer space back in 1961, when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin<\/a> became the first human to orbit the Earth on an adventure that lasted 108 minutes. This feat was followed by multiple milestones from others, including Valentina Tereshkova (1963) who became the first woman to fly to outer space aboard the Vostok 6; and US astronauts like Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrich and Neil Armstrong (1969), who succeeded in stepping on the surface of the Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was followed by multiple other attempts – some unsuccessful and others successful, to send astronauts to space for research, exploration and various other experimental studies. This includes setting up the MIR space station in 1986 and then the ISS (International Space Station) in 1998. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although space has been explored time and again by astronauts and scientists, it was a novel idea to send tourists to space until Dennis Tito, an aeronautical engineer, paid Roscosmos for a trip to outer space for his flight on the Russian spacecraft, Soyuz TM-32<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat is Space Tourism?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n