Space Tourism means organizing of space flights for ordinary members of the public. Some people find this idea futuristic. But over the past few years a great volume of professional work has been done on this subject, and it’s now clear that creating of commercial space tourism services is a realistic target for business today.Among the opponents of this idea is a NASA. Their first concern is about the health of the ôspace travelers.
Everyone knows that astronauts feel strong accelerative forces during training and flights. But there have already been 4 common participants in the space, moreover the first one Dennis Tito was 60 years old and after space traveling feels himself very good. The second point is that space tourists can distract professional astronauts in accomplishing of their affairs. But commonly tourists don’t disturb anyone, so this reason seams not very persuasive.
Specialists think that space tourism will develop progressively. The Experts of spacefuture.com name three main phases:
- Pioneering phase
- Mature phase
- Mass phase
Now we are standing on the fist pioneering step. And mostly the developing of this branch depends on the forces, who is for and who is against space tourism.
