Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are ready to start traveling to space. But that probably doesn't come as a surprise to you! The question is, when will space tourism become affordable for the general public?
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If you're a space enthusiast but not a billionaire like the ones above and want to do space tourism, you should probably wait. Space flights that priced for the average person aren't going to be available anytime soon.
Experts agree that it is impossible today to give an exact target date for when affordable spaceflight will be available to the general public, but most agree that it is decades away, at best.
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One of the biggest challenges is the difficulty of finding enough aspiring amateur astronauts to spread the cost to make space travel affordable.
“The first airplanes carried very few people,” said Laura Forczyk, owner of space consulting firm Astralytical. “Imagine how much a plane ticket if they still carried only a few people.”
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There must also be significant demand for space travel to fill these positions, regardless of price.
Source of information: edition.cnn.com
