INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Credit: SNCWant to get your astronaut wings For now, multi-millionaires only have one option: get to Moscow and convince the Russian Space
Agency Rososmos to take you up to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Soyuz TMA-M capsule blasted skyward on a Soyuz rocket.However,
clear that Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company Blue Origin will probably become the first company to offer trips to space, albeit only
That's partly because it's using a tried and tested technique common to spaceflight missions since the beginning: launch a capsule on a
covered in soft leather, each next to a huge 42.7 x 28.6-inch window
There's a tablet on the wall beside each one.The New Shepard capsule has leather seats and huge windows
The six people then undo their harnesses, enjoying weightlessness for three minutes, then return to their seats for a brief Mach 5 descent
before three parachutes are deployed.The capsule returns gradually to Earth just a few miles from the launch pad, and a soft landing is
ensured by a thrust system
Meanwhile the New Shepard booster makes a rocket-powered vertical landing back where it started, so Blue Origin's New Shepard system is
will burn for two seconds to fling it clear.Crew DragonManufacturer: SpaceXPurpose: Orbital spaceflightPassengers: 7Take-off: Vertical
(and probably will) be used for space tourism at some point, but it's designed to initially take up to four professional astronauts to the
ISS as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program .The seven carbon fiber seats are covered in Alcantara cloth, a high-grade microfiber, with
a three-screened Crew Command Panel accessible from two of the seats
A touch-panel includes manual control options, but the Crew Dragon is also fully autonomous; it can be flown either by the astronauts
However, there is air-con.The Crew Dragon capsule launches on a reusable Falcon 9 rocket, and is due to be used for the first time during
Demonstration Mission 1 (SpX-DM1), an uncrewed test flight that's currently scheduled to launch on September 16 from Launch Complex 39A at
Florida's Kennedy Space Center (crew Dragon's rival in the Commercial Crew Program is Boeing's Starliner capsule, of which more
UnityManufacturer: Scaled Composites for Virgin GalacticPurpose: Suborbital space tourismPassengers: 6Take-off: RunwayLanding:
RunwayLocation: New MexicoTickets have been on sale for rides on a Virgin Galactic spaceplane for a decade, with the price recently jumping
total 2.5-hour Virgin Galactic experience goes something like this: six passengers sit in VSS Unity, a small supersonic plane, which
launches from a runway at Spaceport America in New Mexico strapped to a carrier craft called VMS Eve
Unity then separates at 46,500ft and triggers the ignition of its rocket motor for 40 seconds or so, propelling it into space at Mach
reached an altitude of 52 miles, just 16 miles short of the fabled Karman Line that separates Earth from space.CST-100
StarlinerManufacturer: BoeingPurpose: Orbital spaceflightPassengers: 7Take-off: Vertical on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocketLanding:
ParachutesLocation: FloridaHow about a 's pace taxi' with Wi-Fi and iPads Despite the provision of wireless internet and the possibility of
in-flight entertainment, Boeing's Starliner will use its connectivity for the serious tasks of communication, and autonomous docking with
the ISS.A rival to the SpaceX Crew Dragon in NASA's Commercial Crew Program, it's highly possible that the CST-100 Starliner (CST stands
for Crew Space Transportation) crew capsule could become the primary capsule used by NASA to get its astronauts into space
However, it's also probably got a future as a shuttle for space tourists, taking them either into orbit or for trips around the moon;
Bigelow Aerospace is a partner, and is planning inflatable space habitats, first at the ISS and then free-floating in orbit.Boeing's
Starliner is designed to be a 's pace taxi' to low-Earth orbit
NASA it's likely to take four astronauts plus cargo
Seven seats housed within a capsule interior that glows blue; the company's trademark color will be emitted from its Boeing LED Sky
Boeing says the Starliner is reusable up to 10 times, with a six-month gap in between flights.Although Boeing plans to perform an unmanned
test flight of Starliner towards the end of this year, it recently experienced a problem with the craft's launch abort engines, so there's
a decent chance there will be no test until 2019
Either way, Starliner will eventually launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Kennedy Space
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocketLanding: Any runway that can take a Boeing 737Location: Florida/anywhereIt looks like a Space Shuttle,
Slated to service the ISS for NASA starting in late 2020, Dream Chaser spacecraft will provide cargo delivery and the return of science
under CRS2, Dream Chaser will provide a minimum of six cargo missions to and from the space station between 2020 and 2024
Taking off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, Dream Chaser returns to Earth with a gentle runway landing, just as the Space Shuttle
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