Private Space Tourism

SpaceNut · 2007-12-27 22:10:17

The road to space as a tourist is coming to an end due to not enough production and to many contractual obligations for the extra seat to the ISS.

Russia sees end of road for space tourism may have to seek alternative transport after 2009

cIclops · 2008-01-28 14:23:08

Nik Halik is backup to next private space participant, Richard Garriott

anuary 28 2008
Today, Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announced that Nik Halik of Australia has been chosen to train as the back-up crew member alongside our orbital spaceflight candidate, famed game developer and son of former NASA astronaut, Richard Garriott, who is currently planning a mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in October.
“Through his participation as a back-up crew member, Nik will experience first-hand how our clients train for spaceflight and he, himself, will be certified as a ‘fully-trained cosmonaut’ and will be named to an official space mission crew, a distinction that less than 1,000 people have ever had,” said Eric Anderson, president and CEO of Space Adventures.
“I am thrilled to be chosen as Richard’s back-up. I have dreamed of flying to space ever since I was a young boy. I watched recordings of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon’s surface and I vowed to follow,” said Nik Halik. “The space station will be my first stop, with my eyes focused on the moon.”
“Not only is Nik a successful entrepreneur, but he is also an avid adventurer. Among his various expeditions, he was one the first Australians to dive down five miles and land on the bow of the Titanic and he will be the first civilian from Australia to travel to space,” added Mr. Anderson.
“Nik and I have similar exploratory backgrounds and we’ll have many stories to share during our time together in Star City. I look forward to train with him because not only is it meant to prepare myself for flight, but also to prepare Nik for his future flight. I definitely will be on-hand for his eventual launch to space,” said Mr. Garriott.
The price of the program is $3,000,000 (USD) which includes the required spaceflight training costs, along with accommodations in Star City and other training locations.
About Nik Halik:
Nik Halik, born in Australia to Greek immigrant parents, is the CEO and founder of several companies including Financial Freedom Institute and Money Masters. As an international wealth strategist, he has conducted over 100 'Mind and Wealth Prosperity' conferences globally and mentored investors in maximizing their wealth accumulation. His latest book that will be published and globally released in March 2008, "The Thrillionaire", is an autobiography that also provides astute investment strategies. Mr. Halik is also an adventurer. He has lead expeditions to Antarctica, Africa and the Amazon with his adventure company, ADVENTURE ODYSSEY. Mr. Halik is a mountaineer, having summited several of the highest peaks in the world with an Everest climb planned for 2009. Nik is also an avid stormchaser in the U.S. Midwest’s Tornado Alley. He is 38 years-old and resides amongst his homes in the Greek Islands, Morocco and Australia.

cIclops · 2008-02-11 14:39:28

Doctors give 'green light' for flight of next space tourist - 11 Feb 2008

MOSCOW, February 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian doctors gave two would-be space tourists, Richard Garriott and Nik Halik, a clean bill of health paving the way for specialist training and a flight to the space station, a spokesman said Monday.
"Richard Garriott and his backup Nik Halik have been allowed to undergo special physical training at Star City. No contraindications were detected in the candidates against training and the flight to the International Space Station," Mark Belakovsky from the Medical Biological Problems Institute said.
Earlier, Sergei Tafrov, a deputy head of the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, said sixth space tourist Garriott, 46, the son of former NASA astronaut Owen K. Garriott and a U.S. game developer, and Halik, 38, an Australian entrepreneur, are already undergoing physical training and studying Russian.
Halik will take part in the Soyuz TMA-13 mission if Garriott is unable to participate in the flight, but even if he cannot, he is determined to fly to the ISS in the future, he told U.S. Space Adventures, the only current space tourism provider.
After the $3 million training program the two men will be certified as fully-trained astronauts.

louis · 2008-03-28 10:17:50

Yep, I'm with Cindy on this. We haven't been ambitious enough.

We should be permanently on the Moon by now, with lunar hotels and other economic activity, observatories, fuel production, a Lunar Academy for short term courses in lunar studies and astronomy and with full ISRU in place. Instead...there is no human life whatsoever on the Moon.

Mars is a much bigger ask of course, but if we had 20 years' experience of living on the Moon by now we could at least be confident of cracking all the ISRU aspects of a mission.

SpaceNut · 2015-01-24 18:22:34

There is probably another thread that was lost in the crash since this one is dated 2008, plus if I remember right there was a sub-orbital joy topic as well..

Economic crisis in Russia lowers prices for space tourism

The Russian space tourism company may change the price it charges tourists for tickets to outer space. It had originally planned to offer a five-minute experience in zero gravity for $200,000-$250,000 per person.

crazy talk for just a few minutes....

SpaceNut · 2015-03-11 19:45:22

The Space Adventures was the group brokering the rides from Russia to get people to the ISS.

Singer Sarah Brightman said Tuesday she will sing a song during her upcoming commercial trip on the International Space Station. Brightman, speaking at a press conference in London, said her ex-husband, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, is writing a song that she will sing while on the ISS in September. Brightman is paying a reported $52 million for a ten-day trip to the ISS; she declined to confirm the price but said that she is paying for the trip herself.

SpaceNut · 2015-10-11 21:01:37

I was reminded of commercial space earlier in another topic. So where are we with regards to space tourists but where are we with the price and locations to where we can go to space locations. We have barely got a foot in the door with launchers from Space X but where is it leading if Space x is not brokering there own flights once they have a capsule capable of manned flight?

http://www.spacefuture.com/tourism/tourism.shtml

http://www.space.com/topics/space-tourism/

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