Space Adventures

Space Adventures Ltd.. is a U.S. company headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, USA. It was founded in 1998 as a company that is active in the field of space tourism. It is now the leading company in this sector, and also the only company that has been promoted several tourists into space. Space Adventures has been known as the company was able to send the first space tourists to the International Space Station (ISS).

Space tourists

The company made ​​a number of offers. These include the " zero -gravity flights " in the United States. In May 2001, the company brokered the flight of the U.S. businessman Dennis Tito to the ISS, the so became the first space tourist in history. Tito paid 20 million U.S. dollars. Second customer was Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa. The third passenger was Gregory Olsen on October 1, 2005. On 3 November 2005 Space Adventures announced the flight of her next customer known. This was around the Japanese Daisuke " Dice -K " Enomoto, who was supposed to fly to the ISS in September 2006. In August, his flight was canceled for medical reasons. In its place now flew Anousheh Ansari was the first female holidaymaker into space. Next, flew in April 2007, Microsoft co-founder and Excel and Word inventor Charles Simonyi to the ISS. He was followed in October 2008, the Anglo-American software developer Richard Garriott. For another space tourists Space Adventures, was booked on board Soyuz TMA -13 TMA-14/Sojus 2009: Canadian Guy Laliberté flew to the ISS in September 2009. Since the ISS crew has grown to six people, and the replacement can only be implemented via Soyuz spaceships, no flight options to the ISS yield more. This will only change if the operating time is extended from individual ISS crew members from six to twelve months. The space thus freed has been awarded by Space Adventures to the British singer Sarah Brightman.

The hitherto most sensational offer was announced on 10 August 2005. The project " Deep Space Expedition Alpha", short DSE - Alpha is expected to provide a flight tourists around the moon. The flight will last nine days and should be 2015.

Suborbital aircraft

The company has designed a plane for tourist flights into suborbital space called Space Adventures Explorer. It is transported by the carrier ship Space Adventures M- 55X out into the air. To this end, the company has signed a contract with Russian space agency RSA, on their design, the aircraft is based. A further contract was signed with the company Prodea, which also supports the Ansari X-Prize. Prodea plans to Space Stations in the United Arab Emirates ( Ras Al Khaimah spaceport ) and Singapore (Singapore spaceport ).

Concept

The concept of a space shuttle ( orbiter ), which is started from the back of a carrier aircraft within the atmosphere, has already been studied in the past in projects. These include the projects singer of the Junkers company from 1961 to 1974, as well as the spiral EPOS Program ( MiG- 105) of the design offices Tupolev and Mikoyan -Gurevich in the former Soviet Union in the years 1965-1975. None of the projects has been realized, however, final.

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