Singapore, United Arab Emirates Jump Into Space Tourism Race
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.21.06 | 12:35 PM ET
Space Adventures announced plans yesterday to open a spaceport in Singapore by 2009, just three days after releasing plans for another spaceport in the United Arab Emirates. The news escalates a race between Space Adventures and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to be the first company to offer commercial space flights. The Independent’s Justin Huggler writes that Space Adventures has a slight lead. It has sold a Chinese businessman, Jiang Fang, a place on a sub-orbital spaceflight next year. Branson’s outfit plans to send its first passenger to space from a spaceport in Roswell, New Mexico by 2008.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
GEORGE OKELLO GOPAL 07.10.06 | 12:02 PM ET
SPACE ADVENTURE IS A WORTHWILE LIFETIME ADVENTURE!
sarah 03.19.07 | 9:05 PM ET
Space Adventures is pitted against Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which is building a spaceport near Roswell, New Mexico, and has released a list of 100 passengers who have booked space flights, even though its spacecraft have not yet been built.
The thing is, more and more people have the money for a this kind of flight: $100.000. Why shouldn’t you go in space now, that it isn’t the “final frontier” anymore?