A Space Holiday

If you are a science fiction fan and have always wanted to see just how the home planet looks from the realms of outer space, here’s your chance to take a short space holiday. Blue Origin is a space exploration company which is looking into developing space tourism. Owned by Jeff Bezos, you may know him as the owner of Amazon, the company recently tested it’s rocket capsule called New Shepard.

The capsule has six reclining seats and allows the passengers to track various aspects of the flight. A large central console holds the escape motor, which is used to propel the capsule away from the rocket booster in an emergency. The capsule will carry the space tourists 100 km above the earth. This will help them experience weightlessness as well as the inky blackness in which the planet floats.

Another company indulging in space tourism is Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. A ticket on their SpaceShipTwo can set you back $250,000. While accessing space may be easier when you play space tourist, it will still be at a considerable financial cost. Makes you kind of want to run out and create your own science project on space tourism, doesn’t it?