History’s First Space Tourists Returned to Earth

About three weeks ago, the first space tourists in history to visit the International Space Station set off from our planet and arrived safely at the station. The tourists, who were preparing to return to Earth on the specified date after the days they spent here, learned that they had to stay in space for a while due to bad weather conditions.

The tourists, who were stranded on the International Space Station for days during their planned eight-day visit, with the return journey to Earth delayed several times in a row, finally returned to Earth today. The crew of four landed seamlessly in the Atlantic ocean in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

Work for future ‘space tourist’ journeys has started without slowing down

Space travel mission called AX-1 and organized by Axiom Space, 63-year-old old It was commanded by NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegría, and the passengers included Larry Connor, 63, and Mark Pathy, 52, CEO of Canadian-based investment firm Mavrik Corp, and Eytan Stibbe, 64, an Israeli businessman.

Axiom Space is actually working on building its own ‘space station’ and more space tourists are scheduled to visit this particular station in the future. The station in question will initially be built as part of the International Space Station and will begin orbiting on its own after the work is complete. But of course, this station will host not only space tourists, but also scientific research and astronauts.

While it is said that the cost of a seat in this space tourism journey is 55 million dollars, this price indicates that space tourism will remain as an activity only for the ‘rich’ for a long time in the future. In addition, considering that the estimated ticket price given by Elon Musk for the project of taking humans to Mars is at the level of 100 thousand dollars, it seems that space travel will be quite costly for many years in any case.