Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Millions joined a livestream selling tickets to space on a Chinese
rocket
The first space tourist traveled to space aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft
in 2001. The passenger paid USD 20 million for his eight-day space trip. In
2021, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and an aerospace manufacturer Blue
Origin took a 10-minute sub-orbital spaceflight on his company’s space capsule.
Sub-orbital spaceflight reaches outer space where there is very little gravity for
minutes and comes back to the earth while orbital space flights circle the
earth. Whichever the space trip might be, the tourists can enjoy a zero-gravity
experience and a magnificent view of the mother planet from space. Space
X, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are now repeatedly sending tourists to
space at a price of hundreds of thousands of dollars per seat. Recently, a
Chinese commercial space firm put on sale two $140,000 tickets for a 12-minute
sub-orbital spaceflight scheduled in 2027 on a shopping platform, Taobao. The
sale was witnessed by some three million viewers and the tickets were sold
immediately.
Nowadays, traveling to space sounds no more extraordinary than climbing
the highest peaks or exploring Antarctica. Will there soon be a frequent
flyer program for space flight?
Read the article and learn about China’s first commercial space travel.
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