Which companies have commercial space travel plans?

In recent years, with the development of private space technology, space tourism has matured from the initial idea. At present, three companies will conduct commercial space tourism test flights in sub-orbit and orbit, namely Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX.

1. Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic, the American aerospace company under Virgin Group, aims to develop commercial spacecraft and provide suborbital space flight services for tourists. Virgin Group, its parent company, is one of the largest private enterprises in Britain, with nearly 2 companies. Its founder and CEO is Richard Branson, who was awarded the knighthood award.

Virgin Galactic was founded in 25 and listed on the new york Stock Exchange in 219, becoming the first listed space tourism company and manned space company.

2. Blue Origin

Founded in 2, Blue Origin Company is committed to developing space tourism. The founder is Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, who was once the richest man in the world.

The new Shepard rocket is a reusable vertical takeoff and landing rocket developed from the blue origin, named after Allen Shepard, the first American astronaut who went into space. It uses BE-3 hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine with pumping cycle.

in p>215, it completed its first flight test at an altitude of 1 kilometers and landed vertically. It became the second rocket in history to successfully land vertically from space. The first one was the DC-XA rocket of McDonald Douglas Company in 199s.

3. SpaceX

SpaceX was established in 22 to reduce the cost of space transportation and migration to Mars. Founder Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and once served as the richest man in the world.

Experience of commercial space travel:

The manned cabin of commercial space travel is exquisite and precise in design, and can accommodate six passengers. Its landing observation porthole area is about three times that of Boeing 747, which is convenient for space observation.

after being seated, the countdown indicates that the rocket is about to "lift off". The LCD screen in front of the seat shows the pictures of rocket ignition, launch and liftoff, and shows real-time data such as aircraft height and speed. A few minutes later, the screen prompts that the rocket booster engine is extinguished, the rocket ship is separated, and the plane has reached an altitude of about 1 kilometers.

At this time, the passengers in the plane enter weightlessness for about 4 minutes, and then they can unfasten their seat belts and float in the space capsule. Then the capsule began to "return" to the ground, feeling like a roller coaster.