除了这种传统的太空旅游方式，还有维珍银河和蓝色起源搞的这种亚轨道太空旅游方式，价格便宜，灵活性高等优点。Curiosity has always been the driving force of human progress. Human beings are curious about the sky, so they have airplanes, and human beings are curious about the sea, so they have ships. Now human beings are curious about space, so space tourism is coming.
On the evening of July 11, Beijing time, 71-year-old British billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson became the first owner of an aerospace company to start space travel. Branson became the first private spaceflight to enter the edge of space.
In the common impression, the so-called space tourism is like the astronauts of the Shenzhou spacecraft, flying in a towering rocket in the scorching sun and smoke to the orbit around the earth.
In addition to this traditional way of space tourism, there are also the advantages of suborbital space tourism such as Virgin Galaxy and Blue Origin, which are cheap and flexible.
Branson is nine days ahead of his space travel rival Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.
Bezos had previously announced on social media that he would travel to space in the New Shepard spacecraft developed by Blue Origin on July 20.
The success of the test flight is crucial for Branson, who not only overtook Bezos to become the first owner of an aerospace company to start space travel, but also provided experience for Virgin Galactic's commercial manned space flight, which begins next year.
The suborbital flight is also an adventure game in the rich circle, and many people are worried about its feasibility and safety. Before the official launch of commercial flight, after the company's founder, core management personally tried and verified, will be more convincing.
The survey shows that the total number of people in the potential market for space suborbital travel is about 2.4 million people, with a per capita net worth of more than $5 million.
Virgin Galactic's prospectus also mentioned that more than 90 per cent of ticket holders have a net worth of more than $1 million, and about 70 per cent of holders have a net worth of less than $20 million, which shows that commercial manned space products are highly attractive to high net worth individuals.
Branson said in a recent interview that the space tourism market is large enough to accommodate 20 companies. With the mass production of spaceships, the price for people to go into space will become lower and lower, which he believes will become a reality in the next few years.
Branson had previously predicted that about 2 million people could experience space flight, which now costs between $250000 and $500000. In his eyes, the real space age has only just begun.
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