Leading the Trend in Space Tourism Ruben Oussoren | Peter Briscoe & Tom Delamere | Vancouver Island University Introduction How to Lead the Trend Issues of Space Tourism Space Tourism is already a multimillion Since the beginning of the invention of aircarfts, humans have been working Safety dollar industry and is expected to grow towards the possibility of going higher, faster and further than ever thought Thousands of simulations and equipment tests will between 18-26% per year during 2020 before. Now the time has come to go into outerspace. Provining a new kind have to be conducted. Like the test done on the right of adventre tourism for the wealthy to endulge themselves into before more and 2030 (Reddy et al., 2012). With the with a crew return capsule. The first couple of flights competition can in on the space race. Improving safety regulations, making would be crucial to the success of the industry. innovations from Elon Musk’s Drag- spacecraft reusable and therefore becoming more affordable. on 2 that is shown on the right and SpaceX, Dragon 2 Market-Size Crash test of crew landing captule Reliability, Liability and Risk Management Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo that The current market-size is small because of the cost is shown on the bottom left. It will be the beginning of two new According to the founder of SpaceX, and risk of going into space. This will change over space travel services providing suborbital and orbital flights for Elon Musk, reusability is key to the time as space flights becomes for readily available, space tourists. The initial success of their endeavors would be cru- success of space travel to make it af- which will reduce the costs and risks involved. fordable to a point where the market cial to the success of Space Tourism is ready accept the risks involved and Qoute form Buzz Aldrin Cost by paving the way for the space com- the willingness to pay for such a flight. Since most rocket technology is only meant to be panies to emerge, getting the public’s Virgin Galactic has in a costly yet ef- used once the cost of a single flight could cost around backing and creating reliable, cost-ef- fective way of providing an unique ex- $75 million. However, Elon Musk found a way to fective ways of travelling into space. perience as seen on the right. bring back the rocket reducing the cost to $200,000. Flght path of SpaceShipTwo Virgin Galactic, SpaceShipTwo Competition Facon 9, Reusable Rocket Competition in the space tourism in- Current Space Tourism dustry is important to drive innova- Summary and Conclutions tion, improving safety standards and Most well known private space companies ultimately driving down costs. As JFK Space Tourism has the potential to change humanity’s view forev- said in his speech “we don’t do it be- er, creating a whole new way of travelling and exploring, spurring cause it is easy, but because it is hard” on new advances in medicine and technology. This endeavour will as this industry has the potential to take some time to achieve what is currently on our movie screens. Founder: Elon Musk Founder: Richard Branson create millions of new jobs, new ad- vances in science technology, etc. However, orbital space flights with visits to space hotels in orbit The new Dragan two will be The SpaceShipTwo, VSS Uni- taking astronoughts into or- ty, is to take passangers into around earth will be within reach in the next 50 years and with the bital flights around earth and a sub-orbital space flight that JFK, “Man to Moon Speech“ is meant to be reuseable, cut- last for five to six minutes of Public backing ting down costs and paving actual zero-gravity with a current rate it is being developed, it could be even sooner. the way for a more reliable and ticket price of $200,000. safer way of space travel into The spaceship is still under- Another key to the success of lead- earth’s orbit. going tests to prove its safety standards. ing the trend will come from the References public’s backing to help spur enthu- siasm all over the world helping in- Reddy, M. V., Nica, M., & Wilkes, K. (2012). Space tourism: Research recommendations Other space companies directly, driving the space tourism for the future of the industry and perspectives of potential participants. Tourism Manage- economy and creating future gener- ment, 33(5), 10 1. Orbital Sciences Successful First Glide Flight Test for VSS Unity. (2016). Retrieved March 28, 2017, from 2. Blue Origin ations that are willing to go further 3. Bigelow Aerospace - Moon http://www.virgingalactic.com/update-from-mojave-successful-first-glide-flight-test-for- 4. SpaceDev/Sierra Nevada Corp. out into space than anyone have ever vss-unity/ 5. Boeing done before. Dragon | SpaceX. (2017). Retrieved March 28, 2017, from http://www.spacex.com/dragon 6. Airbus Launch of Discovery Shuttle View From International Space Station.