The First Space Travel Agency is Booking Trips Now!

Trips are being booked!  Launch time is approaching!  You too can go to Space, all you need is a big wallet!  There is a company that has already sent people into Space and to the International Space Station using Russian launch vehicles.  Spaceadventures.com has sent up 8 people so far.  They have training available and are booking Zerogravity, Suborbital, Orbital, and Lunar trips.  Are you ready to go to Space?  Do you have a spare million dollars?  As more and more companies make this available to the paying public, the cost will come down.  That is expected.  But, the cost has a long ways to go before the average person is able to take advantage of it.  The rich and the occaisional lottery winner will be the most likely Astronaught for a few years.  Space Adventures is there to book your trip.

I hope the price evetually comes down to $5,000 - $10,000. Take the pole on the right side. Let's find out what the public is willing to pay for a trip to space.

I have heard rumors that a Japanese company is planning to have Suborbital trips for $10,000.  I think on my next post I will explore the costs that budding Commercial Space companies are proposing.

Space X makes History With Orbital Launch

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/photos-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-test-flight-101208.html

Space X has done it! They made it to orbit where only Governments have trod. 

Space.com had this to say:

"The spaceflight company Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launched the world's first commercial space capsule into orbit and returned to Earth today in a huge leap forward for California-based company, private spaceflight and NASA's plan to rely on such spacecraft in the future.

SpaceX's first Dragon space capsule, as it is known, blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:43 a.m. EST (1543 GMT) today (Dec. 8), completed two orbits around Earth and then splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 500 miles (nearly 804 km) off the coast of Mexico to end what appears to be a successful demonstration flight.  On Dec. 8, 2010, SpaceX joined a realm previously only occupied by national space agencies when it launched the private Dragon spacecraft into orbit and returned it to Earth successfully. "

They made it! What an incredible day! Space is now accessable by private industy.  It's no longer the realm of the Government.  This pic above is something we will see alot more of.  Private enterprise can take people to orbit and space stations and soon the moon.  I am so excited. 

Congratulations Space X!