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 visit, which was planned as eight days after the return journey to Earth was delayed several times in a row, finally returned to Earth today. A crew of four aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the atlantic ocean It landed safely on the water.

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

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

Axiom Space actually build your own ‘space station’ More space tourists are planned 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.

In this space tourism journey, the price of a seat 55 million dollars This price points out that space tourism will remain a special 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.