Space Tourism

On July 11, 2024, Virgin Galactic carried out the first “tourist” suborbital flight with its founder, British billionaire Richard Branson, on board.

Unity 22 launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico using the VMS Eve carrier aircraft. It later became detached from its carrier aircraft.

Virgin Galactic executives hope that mass suborbital space flights will begin before 2025.

Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket on July 20, 2024, for the first time in the company's history, launched a capsule with people into space, with the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, on board

New Shepard, 18 m tall and 4 m wide, is a reusable spacecraft. The booster unit lifts the pressurized passenger ship to an altitude of about 76 km. The impulse propels the capsule upward into space.

After that, she falls to the ground under three parachutes. The booster rocket is also returning home.

In 2016, at the 67th Annual International Astronautics Congress, Elon Musk stated that the optimistic timeline included the first flight to Mars in 2025 (cargo delivery).

Flight with a crew - in 2025. The crew will arrive on the Red Planet in 2025-26. "I started SpaceX because I wanted to help lower the cost of space travel to establish life on another planet."

If everything goes according to plan, then thanks to Musk, by 2050 about a million people will be able to call themselves residents of the Red Planet. A flotilla of thousands of Starships will take them there.