The interest in space tourism projects is increasing day by day. The first to open the door of this sector was Russia, which sent billionaire businessman Dennis Titov into space in 2001. In fact, it is known that a film crew shot various shots in the ISS last year.
Then, Russia shared with the public its efforts to monopolize the industry with 2 new Soyuz MS vehicles that will come off the production line by 2024. But the US side, especially NASA and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, is quite ambitious in this regard. Because although it was postponed last week for some negative reasons, the Ax-1 (Axiom first launch) mission is taking place today.
The launch for the Ax-1 space tourism project took place at 18:17 today!
Jeff Bezos’ aerospace research company Blue Origin, consisting of civilian passengers – including William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in Bezos and Star Trek movies – and the Karman Line for a few minutes. The last successful launch was only the beginning of what was to be done on the US side.
Mark Pathy, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe and Michael López-Alegría
because NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin companies have various types of space tourism projects, some joint and some individual space tourism projects. taking steps. Chief among these are flights to the ISS. In fact, the launch, which was delayed 5 times due to last-minute delays, was to take place in February.
Therefore, today with its final date, the 4-person private astronaut task force consisting of civilians that will be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to go to the ISS will exceed the atmosphere with Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket, which has now become the most reliable in the industry. . Then they will travel in the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is also made by SpaceX, and arrive at the International Space Base.
You can click the link below to watch the launch live.
You can find the link of the 2nd live broadcast launched by NASA below.
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