Those who hate to fly would not be thrilled to hear about one of the newest ways to travel: spaceship.
It all began back in 1985 when the first non-astronaut, Jake Garn, flew on Discovery from April 12th to April 19th as a specialist. Later, on April 28th, 2001 Dennis Tito became the first space tourist when he paid a fee to visit the International Space Station (ISS) for seven days. He was followed by Mark Shuttleworth, a South African millionaire in 2002 and later by trained scientist Gregory Olsen in 2005 (“Space Tourism.”). Since Olsen, no one has traveled to space for recreational purposes, but that is soon about to change.
According to Jane Reifert, president of Incredible Adventures, space tourism already has a market. Reifert says that customers at Incredible Adventures enjoy the simulation of weightlessness achieved from a MiG-25 and a modified B-727 conducting certain flight maneuvers (Ebner). This is just a taste of what customers are expected to experience during