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Japanese billionaire Maezawa cancels moon flyby mission

June 01, 2024 3:39 pm

The team had originally aimed to make the circumlunar flight with celebrities on board by the end of last year but that became 'unfeasible', the mission said in a statement on its website.

Gopi Thotakura becomes first Indian space tourist: What is space travel — and how much can a journey cost?

May 23, 2024 12:02 pm

Thotakura flew aboard a spacecraft of Blue Origin, one of the few private space companies offering a joy ride to people wanting to venture into space. The whole journey, from take off to landing lasted only about ten minutes.

Gopi Thotakura (centre) with the other five space tourists after the space flight was concluded.

First Indian space tourist completes flight: What are sub-orbital trips?

May 21, 2024 11:26 am

The recent Blue Origin journey was a sub-orbital space flight, meaning it did not get into an orbit around the Earth. However, plans are afoot for having deeper space trips in the future, potentially to destinations around the Moon, other planets or asteroids.

Gopi Thotakura to be the first Indian space tourist: What is space tourism?

April 16, 2024 11:57 am

In recent years, space tourism has grown by leaps and bounds. According to media reports, in 2023, the space tourism market was valued at $848.28 million.

The future of space tourism is now. Well, not quite

May 13, 2022 5:05 pm

Less than a year after Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson kicked off a commercial space race by blasting into the upper atmosphere within weeks of each other last summer, the global space tourism market is skyrocketing, with dozens of companies now offering reservations for everything from zero-pressure balloon trips to astronaut boot camps and simulated zero-gravity flights

First all-civilian crew launched into orbit aboard SpaceX rocket ship

September 16, 2021 10:34 am

The SpaceX Inspiration4 flight is expected to last about three days from launch to splashdown in the Atlantic, mission officials said.

SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit

September 14, 2021 1:12 pm

The crew vehicle, dubbed Resilience, was set for liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center atop one of Musk's reusable Falcon 9 rockets, with a five-hour targeted launch window that opens at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

Teenager to fly with Bezos in inaugural space tourism flight

July 16, 2021 12:37 pm

Oliver Daemen is working to obtain his pilot's license and is set to attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands to study physics and innovation management in September.

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Branson vs Bezos: Two billionaires race to ride their own rockets into space

July 09, 2021 3:23 pm

Branson is due to take off on July 11 from New Mexico and Bezos departs on July 20 from West Texas.

Explained: What does SpaceShipTwo’s first crewed test flight mean for space tourism?

December 13, 2020 8:43 am

Saturday’s flight will mark the first crewed flight of the rocket-powered spacecraft that eventually aims to carry tourists to space, which the company claims will start in 2021.