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2024: Space tourists' first ever spacewalk takes place
On September 12, 2024, the first ever spacewalk by space tourists took place. As part of the Polaris Dawn private space mission, billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis left the Crew Dragon for a few minutes and returned. Read more here
2023
China has created a state-owned company to develop space tourism
In mid-June 2023, China created the state-owned Center for the Joint Development of Space Transportation and the Use of Outer Space. Thus, the country's authorities decided to develop space tourism. Read more here.
SpaceX launch to ISS with tourists
On May 21, 2023, at 17:37 US East Coast time (May 22 at 00:37 Moscow time), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a manned spacecraft Crew Dragon was launched from the launch complex of the Kennedy Space Center 39V at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The device went to the International Space Station as part of the Axiom (Ax-2) commercial program.
The crew of the ship consists of four people. Peggy Whitson, an American biochemist, NASA astronaut and the first woman to be ISS commander, was chosen as commander. She spent 665 days in space - more than any other American or any other woman. The functions of the pilot were taken over by John Shoffner, an American race car driver, investor and entrepreneur. In addition, astronauts from Saudi Arabia Ali AlQarni and Ryan Barnawi are on board. Moreover, Barnaui will be the first Saudi woman ever to be in space.
Space tourists will spend eight days aboard the orbital complex, during which they will work together with the station's permanent crew. At the same time, the mission participants will Ax-2 be able to perform their own experiments. One of them is organized by the Institute for Translational Research of Space Health (TRISH): it includes a series of tests to measure and assess the vital signs of the participants' own bodies. The purpose of the experiment is to better understand how inexperienced astronauts respond to microgravity conditions.
In total, the Ax-2 team will conduct research on more than 20 projects. They cover a variety of areas: from medicine and health care (the study of DNA and malignancies) to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.[1]
2021
The resumption of tourist flights into space by Roscosmos
On December 8, 2021, information appeared that Roscosmos resumed tourist flights into space. The successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-20 manned spacecraft was carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
On board is a crew consisting of astronaut Roscosmos Alexander Misurkin, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his business assistant Jozo Hirano.
Docking with the International Space Station should take place 6 hours after launch. The flight takes place under a contract with Space Adventures. The crew is expected to spend 12 days on the ISS and return to Earth on December 20.[2]
First passenger flight of a Blue Origin ship
On July 20, 2021, the New Shepard spacecraft of the American company Blue Origin made the first passenger suborbital flight.
Below is a video shot inside a New Shepard capsule during a suborbital flight.
Space tourists to the ISS
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