Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 33 image entries Contest Directions: It's time to commercialize space - show how space tourism may (or may not) evolve, and what companies would be the pioneers to commercialize space. [ browse best gallery pictures ] Tags: spacetourism Jackpot: 1st place: $50, 2nd place: $30 , 3rd place: $20 Started: 4/11/2006 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 4/13/2006 6:00:00 AM
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Andy Thomas, an Australian astronaut, is promoting a $150 million project designed to turn the Woomera rocket range into an international spaceport for tourists. He contends that the project is in Australia's best long term interested. Under his scheme, the Australian Federal Government will spend $150 million over 10 years to upgrade Woomera and build new infrastructure. In fact, Thomas believes that by pursuing this project, Australia would be doing what the State of New Mexico in the United States of America already is undertaking. New Mexico has allocated $150 million to build a facility for space tourists near the White Sands missile range. The space tourism adventure market is worth billions of dollars and is being led by Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson, who has formed the company Virgin Galactic to send tourists into space in what he hopes is the not too distant future. There are other companies working towards advancing the space tourism industry including US based Space Adventures, which recently announced plans to build spaceports in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. In fact, Space Adventures has sent three civilians into space already, including Dennis Tito in 2001, Mark Shuttleworth in 2002 and Greg Olsen in 2005. Each man paid $27 million to stay on the International Space Station for several days.
Space tourism is a flight, paid from private means, into space or into near-earth orbit with entertainment or research purposes.
According to estimations, polls and studies of and public opinion, many people have a strong desire to fly into space. According to opinion of experts, this desire, in intermediate perspective, can become important source for further development of astronautics.
Flights to ISS
Dennis Tito was the first space tourist, who paid for the flight into space in 2001.
At present, International Space Station (ISS) is the only destination of space tourism. Flights are conducted with the help of Russian spaceships “Soyuz” to Russian segment of ISS.
ROSCOSMOS (Federal space agency of Russian Federation) and Space Adventures are brokering the flights of tourists. Space Adventures is in collaboration with “ROSCOSMOS” since 2001. With the help of his company, already five tourists (data by end of 2007) have traveled to space.
Preparation of space tourists is done in “Zvezdny Gorodok” or “Star City” near Moscow and also in small aircrafts, simulating the weightlessness.
Even though the price tag of a visit to orbit is around 20-23 million dollars, number of people, wanting to travel to space, is steadily increasing. From July 2007, price of space travel was increased from 20 to 30-40 million dollars. Apart from this, price of new service was identified—exit permission of space tourist into free space — 15 million dollars.
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Andy Thomas, an Australian astronaut, is promoting a $150 million project designed to turn the Woomera rocket range into an international spaceport for tourists. He contends that the project is in Australia's best long term interested. Under his scheme, the Australian Federal Government will spend $150 million over 10 years to upgrade Woomera and build new infrastructure. In fact, Thomas believes that by pursuing this project, Australia would be doing what the State of New Mexico in the United States of America already is undertaking. New Mexico has allocated $150 million to build a facility for space tourists near the White Sands missile range. The space tourism adventure market is worth billions of dollars and is being led by Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson, who has formed the company Virgin Galactic to send tourists into space in what he hopes is the not too distant future. There are other companies working towards advancing the space tourism industry including US based Space Adventures, which recently announced plans to build spaceports in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. In fact, Space Adventures has sent three civilians into space already, including Dennis Tito in 2001, Mark Shuttleworth in 2002 and Greg Olsen in 2005. Each man paid $27 million to stay on the International Space Station for several days.
Space tourism is a flight, paid from private means, into space or into near-earth orbit with entertainment or research purposes.
According to estimations, polls and studies of and public opinion, many people have a strong desire to fly into space. According to opinion of experts, this desire, in intermediate perspective, can become important source for further development of astronautics.
Flights to ISS
Dennis Tito was the first space tourist, who paid for the flight into space in 2001.
At present, International Space Station (ISS) is the only destination of space tourism. Flights are conducted with the help of Russian spaceships “Soyuz” to Russian segment of ISS.
ROSCOSMOS (Federal space agency of Russian Federation) and Space Adventures are brokering the flights of tourists. Space Adventures is in collaboration with “ROSCOSMOS” since 2001. With the help of his company, already five tourists (data by end of 2007) have traveled to space.
Preparation of space tourists is done in “Zvezdny Gorodok” or “Star City” near Moscow and also in small aircrafts, simulating the weightlessness.
Even though the price tag of a visit to orbit is around 20-23 million dollars, number of people, wanting to travel to space, is steadily increasing. From July 2007, price of space travel was increased from 20 to 30-40 million dollars. Apart from this, price of new service was identified—exit permission of space tourist into free space — 15 million dollars. 
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