VISION 2020 SPACE TOURISM

SPACE TOURISM
Space Tourism is the term that's come to be used to mean ordinary members of the public buying tickets to travel to space and back. Many people find this idea futuristic. But over the past few years a growing volume of professional work has been done on the subject, and it's now clear that setting up commercial space tourism services is a realistic target for business today.

 The biggest unexploited new market. To have the truly "un-Earthly" experience of living in zero gravity. Breathtaking view to look at Earth floating --in space; to look out at the stars. Possibilities such as space-walking. Lifelong dream for some people. It could create major new fields of employment

Types of Space Tourism

Two distinct services are currently envisioned for public space travel:-

Orbital flights-travelling to low Earth orbit Suborbital flights-short excursions beyond earth's atmosphere and back.

Space tourism 2020

Increase in number of passengers Rs $20,000 Average growth rates of 18% - 26%/year through the decade 2020-2030. We can predict that service prices will fall steadily as passenger numbers increase. And due to this fall in prices as well as to the development of progressively more entertaining facilities in orbit, it seems probable that demand will continue to grow strongly.

Orbital Accommodation Industry

Such growth will also have interesting implications for the hotel industry. Nevertheless, by 2030 orbital hotels will have moved beyond the first generation comprising clusters of standard pre-fabricated modules, and will include large structures like resort hotels, entertainment complexes and sports centres assembled in orbit

Space tourism turnover and Macroeconomic aspects

The tourist activities described above will represent a turnover of the order of some $100 billion/year by 2030, assuming 5 million guests paying $20,000 each. It is particularly interesting to note that the activities described above will create several million permanent jobs in the aerospace, hospitality and related industries, a large proportion of them in leading industrial countries (although the technical know- how on which they depend will be available in a wider range of countries in 2030 than they are today).

TOURISM IN SPACE HOTELS

In order to provide longer touristic stays in Earth orbit, concepts for space hotels have been investigated worldwide. In Japan, several designs for large-scale space hotels were analysed in the context of industrial studies like the SHIMIZU. It has a total mass of 8000 tons and offers all amenities and entertainment opportunities, one can expect from such a giant hotel complex.

SHIMIZU

Space Sports
Once hotel companies start to build and operate orbital accommodation - Zero-G sports centers. Zero gravity stadiums - For example zero-G versions of existing terrestrial sports, such as table-tennis, badminton, tennis, and even basketball. As the structures get larger, a wider range of games will become possible, with room for spectators too Entirely new sports (New rules and regulations) Possibility

Virgin Galactic adds satellite launches to space tourism

Virgin Galactic is all set to become the first private space tourism company to regularly send civilians into space. Space ShipTwo will carry six people. The initial seat price is $200,000, with a required down-payment of $20,000

 Till date, over 500 people have signed up. A citizen astronaut will only require three days of training before spaceflight. The spacecraft will travel 360,000 feet (109.73 km/68.18 miles) high. This goes beyond the internationally defined boundary between Earth and space of 100 km

Prediction
In the 2020s, a new generation of ships will be developed capable of reaching much higher orbits. In the decades after that, trips around the Moon may become possible. Exploiting the full range of possibilities of zero gravity, architecture will keep designers happy for decades by building any shape or size. There'll also be rotating structures giving artificial gravity. Forecast for suborbital space travel projects that by 2021, over 15,000 passengers could be flying annually, representing revenues in excess of US$700 million.

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