What was once only a dream is now becoming a reality ?

In this week I decided to write about the change of transportation, because it is the base of tourism. As we know that the tourism industry would not exist without transportation. Transportation has important role of people’s life who wants to see the world, because this is the only way if they want to reach the destinations.  So this area should impoving day to day, as human needs are growing.

So as I said transportation technology is progressing at a much slower pace than some of the other sciences such as information technology.

I have read some articles about that, in the near future, automotive companies will focus on fully automated vehicles where people can enter in or speak the place they want to go to and the vehicle will automatically take them there.  And for me the most important thing what I read in this topic was the space tourism.

In the near future we can travel in to the space by spaceships, so we can say that his is the new way of tourism transporting.

But what is exactly the space tourism? Space tourism is the term used to describe space travel for recreational or leisure purposes. 

Since the beginning of space travel, only 547 humans have traveled above the Earth’s atmosphere and into space.

Virgin Galactic:

The most famous space agency is the Virgin Galactic, so now I would like to introduce a little bit. This company has two vehicles, which can carry people into space. This two is the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo.

Training:

The most important is security and that passengers are fully trained out of the spacecraft and every moment of the trip. Virgin Galactic offers the opportunity to do astronauts training in the future. They want to provide for their tourist an incredible experience. And not at least, the company is focusing on the fact, that the traveler have to be medically healthy. Each astronaut will take part in three days of pre-flight preparation, bonding, and training onsite at Spaceport America. Pre-flight preparation will ensure that each astronaut is mentally and physically prepared to enjoy every second what they spend in the space.

Passengers would be transported to a height of between 100-160km above earth, experience 3-6 minutes of weightlessness and a view of the stars before being taken back down to earth. This is expected to cost around $200,000-250,000 per person. 

When I think of space travel, my first thought is that, this could be a very exciting journey , but the second thought that comes to mind is whether this thing is safe enough? Would I like to travel to space? Would it be safe? How can I feel in the weightlessness?

I have talked about this with Ágota and she told me some interesting thoughts, about how she sees this topic:

 " I would like to go into space because not everyone can do this and very special. I think what I would enjoy the best is the weightlessness, because it is a really interesting physical thing. But maybe now this is not so safe but if we develope this area and we will focusing on it, it can be a better way for the tourism."

Furthermore, I think maybe in the remote future, we can find a planet where we can live we can breathe and where we can build the same life what we live now here on the Earth.

There is a movie about this topic, if somebody is interested in this. The name of the movie is the Interstellar. I saw this movie and it is really great story, and we can see really good technical solutions in it.

My last video is a little long, but if you want to learn more about this topic and Virgin Galactic you should watch this.  :)