Travel to space: Russia is preparing for space tourism

As long as mankind exists, so much does it dream of surfing the endless expanses of outer space. Space has been mastered for more than 50 years, and during this time a lot has happened. If at first such flights were financed by the state , and closed institutes and defense enterprises were involved in development, then in the 1990s they became interesting for ordinary people and private firms. In the past 15 years, dozens of companies have appeared that earn money from the space dream. The private industry acquired rockets and spacecraft, began selling tickets for flights. Cosmos from a feat turns into a service.

In Russia, CosmoCourse is committed to making space tourism a mass entertainment. Pavel Pushkin, the company's general director, who will acquaint visitors with an innovative project at ISF 2016 , says that the country does not yet have to declare the presence of space tourism: “Only eight people visited space as tourists, but they flew into orbit, lived on the ISS. They went through dozens of surveys and paid tens of millions of dollars. We provide for suborbital flights. ”

For this purpose, CosmoCourse is creating a reusable suborbital space complex. An excursion to the height of the Gagarin orbit along an open path is carried out using a reusable suborbital booster rocket and a reusable suborbital spacecraft.
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Those who wish to go on such a voyage must undergo a three-day training and medical examination. Together with six other travelers, you can make a 15-minute flight. The state of weightlessness will last no more than six minutes.



During this time, you can move inside the cabin, watching the Earth from space in the personal porthole. Astronauts in such cases like to play with food and water.

The suborbital space complex is equipped with new options that allow you to use it more than once. This is how a reliable and safe flight scheme with multilevel parry during accidents is implemented.

The company plans to bring the safety of such space tours to the level of passenger aviation. But it will be later, and direct commercial launches will start in 2020. Well, look forward to.