NASA launches space tourism

- Future Science-KR Chowdhury

The US space agency NASA has announced that it will send a private citizen into space as a space tourist. Three billionaire citizens will pay કરોડ 58 million to spend eight days on the International Space Station. Along with the three, the former NASA astronaut will also join the mission as a private citizen, and will pay for the spaceflight himself. Now for the private citizen, it can be said that the door of space tourism has opened. A new chapter in the space age has begun since the Soviet Union sent its first citizen, Yuri Gagarin, into space. Then in 191, NASA launched its space shuttle. In addition to launching commercial satellites, the space shuttle was used as a space center on a temporary basis. Where the astronauts stayed for about a week. At the end of their mission, the space shuttle finally returned to Earth. With the launch of the space shuttle, the private citizen had a new opportunity to travel in space. NASA was taking a private citizen into space as a guest through its 'Guest Astronaut' program. For which no charge was taken from them. Now NASA wants to take all the cost of space travel, get a private citizen to do space travel, and do the side business.

NASA's 'Guest Astronaut Program'

Man's first dream was to fly like a bird. After the realization of which, human beings left the earth and became eager to go into space. The superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, proved by sending their citizens into space that "humans can leave the earth and go to the moon." At this point, the billionaire millionaire felt that 'he too should have the opportunity to travel to space.' His ambition has become a means of earning for an organization like NASA. With the concept of 'space tourism', private and government organizations are now gearing up to send millionaires into space. Alan Musk's SpaceX company recently launched a private space shuttle. However, if you want to stay in space for a long time, only NASA and Russia can provide this facility to a private citizen. Launched with international collaboration, the International Space Station can now accommodate private citizens. NASA is currently preparing to send six private citizens to the International Space Station. The astronauts will arrive on the International Space Station in March and will also conduct some scientific experiments.

Speaking of private spaceflight, on April 19, the United States sent for the first time a guest astronaut, a US senator named Jack Garn from Utah, as a representative of the US Congress. Then, on June 17, Prince Salman Sultan Abdul Aziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, along with six other astronauts, went on a space shuttle as an astronaut. At this time a messaging satellite called Arbaset was launched into space by the space shuttle. Before the crash of the Space Shuttle Challenger, Bill Nelson, a congressman from Melbourne, Florida, successfully flew on a space shuttle mission on January 19. The January 12 crash of the US space shuttle Challenger killed five other astronauts, including Krista McAuliffe, a NASA space program teacher who went into space as a private citizen. This led to a question mark over NASA's space program and a number of controversies.

'Space tourism': Russia's debut with a new concept

On April 6, 2001, Dennis Tito, an American businessman, became the world's first paid space traveler. Russia has flown an American millionaire to the International Space Station for a week on a Soyuz rocket. Dennis Tito allegedly paid the Russians about ૨ 50 million to stay in space for a week. A similar trip was made by South African Mark Shuttleworth on April 6, 2006. Gregory Hammond Olsen of the United States and Marcos Cesar Pontes of Brazil had the opportunity to travel to the International Space Station in 2006. On September 6, 2006, (just days after her 30th birthday), Anusheh Ansari became the first Iranian woman to go into space. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' space company launched a private spaceflight in 2021. On September 15, 2021, billionaire Elon Musk sent all nine civilian crews on the first space mission. Among the private astronauts were 7-year-old tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, 31-year-old geologist Sian Proctor, 4-year-old aerospace data engineer Chris Sembrowski and 4-year-old Haley Arsenox. Against which NASA has now taken concrete action. NASA will send four civilians into space. Who will spend a week on the International Space Station in April 206 and do experiments. Axiom Space, a private space company developing its own module for the ISS, will conduct the trip. Four private astronauts will be sent to the International Space Station by a SpaceX crew dragon capsule. Former astronaut and Axiom Space Vice President Michael Lopez-Alegria will serve as mission commander in the first NASA space tourism experiment. He will be joined by Larry Connor as a pilot, and as a mission specialist, and by Eaton Steeb.

Mission AX-1: Some Stranger Things

Michael Lopez-Allegria was born in Spain, but grew up in California, USA. While Mark Pethy is a Canadian citizen. Athen Steebe's hometown is Israel. On March 30, 2020, the four astronauts will begin their spaceflight with the Falcon 6 rocket from the space launch complex at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission is named AX-1. The four astronauts have been training at NASA's Johnson Space Center and other facilities in Houston since August 2021. The training will familiarize them with ISS systems, on-board scientific facilities and emergency procedures. They are also training at Space-Ax's Hawthorne, California facility. SpaceX's training will familiarize them with the operation of the Crew Dragon Capsule and assist in the process of getting to and from the International Space Station.

In the future, Axiom Space wants to operate as a space tourism company. Through this mission he will learn important basic lessons of space tourism. Axiom Space has also revealed that the astronauts will take to the station the technology developed by the Israeli company, Elef Farms. In the mission, former Israeli pilot Atten Steeb will carry an ancient coin made by Jewish rebels against the International Space Station. Jerusalem was captured by the Romans in the year 7 AD. In opposition to which, by the Israeli citizens, AD. From 19 to 19 a revolt started. Which is known in history as the Bar Kokhba Rebellion. The revolt was the last of three decisive battles between the Romans and the Jewish people. Now NASA has only a crucial nine years left to run the International Space Station. The NASA International Space Station is scheduled to be destroyed in January 2021 at a point called "Point Nemo" in the South Pacific Ocean.

International Space Station: The only popular destination for space tourists

Due to an accident involving the Challenger space shuttle, NASA ended its guest astronaut program. Due to which no private citizen was able to go to space shuttle after that. In the 12th case, NASA rebelled against the ban on carrying ordinary citizens into space as a guest astronaut. According to the National Institutes of Health, during space travel, what changes occur in the body in old age? An experiment was done to find out. For the experiment, NASA was requested by the National Institutes of Health to send a former astronaut and retired American senator, former Mercury Seven astronaut John Glenn, into space. NASA finally approved astronaut John Glenn's request to fly on a space shuttle for geriatrics research. The International Space Station became operational in the year 2000.

Three astronauts went on the first mission to the International Space Station. Who spent 15 days in space. The Expedition 1 crew consisted of an American commander and two Russians. The commander, Bill Shepherd, had previously traveled to space three times. All Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei K as Russian astronauts. Krikalev was included. The two astronauts had previously flown long-range space at the Mir space station. In which Cricalev spent an entire year in space. Now that the International Space Station has been set up in space, the whole picture of space tourism has changed. NASA did not want the private citizen to travel to space. But Russia, separated from the Soviet Union, was free and willing to take the private citizen over its Russian module. The now-government-sponsored 'Guest Astronaut' program is almost discontinued by NASA.