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Why Don't We Take A
Trip To The Moon?
Would you like to take a trip to the moon or some other planet?
How about just being able to go on a tour of the universe? Well
this has already begun to happen starting back in 2001. Regular
citizens taking a trip in a space shuttle to see the moon. A
vacation like no other. Back then a tourist named Gregory Olsen
and the twelfth ISS crew took off from Cosmodrome launch pad in a
Soyuz TMA-7 at midnight eastern standard time on October 1. He was
not considered a tourist, he was called a space flight participant
and did however pay $20 million to join the crew and go on a
flight to the moon. After that Dennis Tito was the first paying
tourist on April 2001 also handing over a hefty $20 million to
take the flight. Then there was Mark Shuttleworth in April 2002,
paying again $20 million. These men are what are being referred to
as an elite group of space tourists.
As strange as it may sound, space tourism is now here and it is
continuing to grow. The more people who participate the less it
will begin to cost to deliver these space tours. Many Americans
are willing and want to try this new form of entertainment and are
willing to pay around $10 thousand to do it.
However, right now Russia controls the market and it is currently
a private enterprise. For this to become mainstream a corporation
would need to take it over and invest the time in money, along
with the government to make sure all flights go smoothly.
As it stands currently, there are laws that dictate out space
travel and restrict private entities from doing business. However,
the good news is, is that President Bush signed into law the
Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act on December 23, 2004 that
will help advance and regulate the development of tourist space
flight. As other countries possibly adopt the same type of acts,
this will raise the quality and safety standards making space
tourism safer and create standardizations.
Possibly the best solution would be to create an international
treaty that would promote private enterprises to do this type of
business and it would then be treated more like any other business
with the same insurances and safety requirements to go along with
it.
As time goes on we will probably begin to see more and more people
looking to take a flight to the moon, which is if they can afford
it. One day we may all be able to. Who knows, going to the moon
could become as common place as traveling to another country.
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