Space Tourism: Chinese Startup Deep Blue Aerospace To Sell 2 Tickets At $211000 For 2027 Space Flight

In recent times, a lot of unusual things have been heard and seen in different categories, like food, lifestyle, or travelling. In terms of travel, people have seen various tourism plans and trips to different countries, but do you know about space tourism? Well, China does. Chinese startup Deep Blue Aerospace plans to sell its first two tickets for a space-travelling rocket in 2027, charging $211,000 (around ₹17.80 crores) for the experience.

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Deep Blue Aerospace, a private space launch enterprise founded in 2016 by Huo Liang, is based in Jiangsu province, China, specialising in the development of reusable rockets.

Deep Blue Aerospace will sell tickets for a suborbital flight to outer space at 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) today, with plans to increase availability next month. Passengers will not enter orbit, meaning the rocket will just reach outer space. Deep Blue Aerospace plans to recover a carrier rocket from orbit in quarter one of 2025, citing the importance of reusable rockets in reducing high launch costs for space tourism.

Chinese private company Deep Blue Aerospace will sell tickets for space travel in 2027 at 18:00 today at a price of 1.5 million RMB ($210,000) each. pic.twitter.com/FmOfZckHKJ

— ShanghaiPanda (@thinking_panda) October 24, 2024

With American firms like Blue Origin and SpaceX at the forefront, the commercial passenger travel sector is still in its early stages. Chinese companies, including state-backed CAS Space, have announced plans to enter the space tourism sector. CAS Space plans to launch flights by 2028.

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What Is Space Tourism?

Space tourism involves human space travel for recreational purposes, including orbital, suborbital, and lunar tours. The possibility of seeing Earth from space, feeling weightless, travelling at high speeds, and advancing science all entice tourists.

Space tourism began in 2001 with Dennis Tito becoming the first space tourist. Organised by Space Adventures, Roscosmos, and RSC Energia, seven space tourists travelled to the ISS eight times between 2001 and 2009 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The price ranged from $20 million to $25 million per trip. Some space tourists have contracted with third parties for research activities. By 2007, space tourism was considered one of the earliest markets for commercial spaceflight.

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Space tourists require physical fitness before embarking on space missions. They require training in fast acceleration and weightlessness through centrifuging and high-altitude jet plane parabolic arcs. They may also learn to operate and fix spaceship parts using simulators. So the future space tourists, are you ready?

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