Space tourism | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 25/12/2018

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism


00:02:13 1 Terminology
00:04:29 2 Precursors
00:10:33 3 Sub-orbital space tourism
00:11:16 3.1 Successful projects
00:12:05 3.2 Ongoing projects
00:13:30 3.3 Cancelled projects
00:16:08 4 Orbital space tourism
00:16:17 4.1 Successful projects
00:18:57 4.2 Ongoing projects
00:20:31 4.3 Cancelled projects
00:21:19 5 Tourism beyond Earth orbit
00:21:28 5.1 Ongoing projects
00:22:51 5.2 Cancelled projects
00:23:59 6 Legality
00:24:50 6.1 United States
00:26:14 7 Attitudes toward space tourism
00:26:57 7.1 Environmental effects
00:28:28 7.2 Education and advocacy
00:29:09 7.3 Economic potential
00:30:12 8 See also



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Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. To date, orbital space tourism has been performed only by the Russian Space Agency.   Work also continues towards developing suborbital space tourism vehicles. This is being done by aerospace companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. In addition, SpaceX (an aerospace manufacturer) announced in 2018 that it is planning on sending two space tourists on a free-return trajectory around the Moon on the upper stage of SpaceX's BFR rocket, known as the Big Falcon Spaceship (BFS).During the period from 2001 to 2009, the publicized price for flights brokered by Space Adventures to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was in the range of US$20–40 million. 7 space tourists made 8 space flights during this time. Some space tourists have signed contracts with third parties to conduct certain research activities while in orbit. By 2007, space tourism was thought to be one of the earliest markets that would emerge for commercial spaceflight. Space Adventures is the only company that has sent paying passengers to space. In conjunction with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Space Adventures facilitated the flights for all of the world's first private space explorers. The first three participants paid in excess of $20 million (USD) each for their 10-day visit to the ISS.
Russia halted orbital space tourism in 2010 due to the increase in the International Space Station crew size, using the seats for expedition crews that would previously have been sold to paying spaceflight participants. Orbital tourist flights were set to resume in 2015 but the one planned was postponed indefinitely and none have occurred since 2009.As an alternative term to "tourism", some organizations such as the Commercial Spaceflight Federation use the term "personal spaceflight". The Citizens in Space project uses the term "citizen space exploration".