The Race to Get Tourists to Suborbital Space Is Heating Up
The Race to Get Tourists to Suborbital Space Is Heating Up
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 10, 20186m 9s
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Show Notes
Space: final frontier or ultimate tourist destination? Possibly both—provided you have the cash. Already, you can buy tickets for (as-yet-unscheduled) flights aboard SpaceShipTwo, the crew vehicle developed by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. And at a NewSpace conference in Seattle last month, Blue Origin—helmed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—announced that it has plans to sell tickets to wannabe space tourists as early as next year.
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