This document discusses the emergence of private spaceflight and space tourism. It outlines some of the historical aspirations seen in science fiction that led to early government-led orbital flights. Private companies are now developing technologies like reusable rockets, space planes, and high-altitude balloons to provide suborbital and orbital space flights to paying passengers and advance space tourism as a developing industry. Several companies have outlined plans and timelines to begin offering short space flights to tourists within the next few years, and some longer term goals include using space stations as hotels and private missions to Mars.

1. PERSONAL SPACEF L IGHT
( SPACE TOURISM )
BOUGUEZ Z I SAMI SEPTEMBER
2014

2. ASPIRAT IONS OF PERSONAL
SPACEF L IGHTS
MEMORIAL I ZED IN BOOKS
AND MOVIES :
J U L E S V E R N E ’ S FROM
EARTH TO THE MOON &
AROUND THE MOON
S T A N L E Y K U B R I C K ’ S 2 0 0 1 :
THE SPACE ODYSSEY

3. F IRST
ORBI TAL
SPACEF L IGHT
• Triggered by the economic
difficulties faced by the Russian
space industry
• Brokered by Space Adventures
• Launched from Baikonur (
Kazakhstan ) spaceport in Soyuz
TM-32 Spacecraft ( April 28,
2001)
• Time spent : 7 days 22 hours 4
minutes
• Orbited earth 128 times

4. OVERAL L : 7 PRIVATE
SPACEF L IGHTS

5. SUBORBI TAL
F L IGHTS
• Reaches an altitude higher
than 100 km ( Kármán line
)
• Maximum speed below the
orbital velocity
• Microgravity sensations out
of atmosphere
• Way less energy needed in
comparison with orbital
spaceflights

6. S P A C E S H I P O N E ’ S S U C C E S S F U L
F L IGHT
IN OCTOBER 2 0 0 4 , SPACESHIPONE WENT ON TO COMPLETE
THE F IRST SUBORBI TAL PRIVATE SPACEF L IGHT BY
REACHING 1 0 0 KM IN AL T I TUDE, MARKING THE EMERGENCE
OF SPACE TOURISM ( THOUGH NO PAYING PASSENGER WAS
ON BOARD)

7. SPACE TRANSPORT BUSINESS : LAUNCH SERVICES PROVIDED
TO :
Government
space
organizations
Satellite
companies
PAYING
SPACE
TOURISTS

8. THE EMERGENCE
OF SPACE
TOURISM
INDUSTRY

9. RENT A ROCKET
TECHNOLOGY BY
• Reusable spacecraft
Dragon V2
• Carries 7 passengers and
Cargo
• Makes a terrestrial soft
landing
• Expected first spaceflight
date : 2016 or 2017

10. A PRIVATE SPACE
PLANE BY
• Lynx space plane : two-seater
jet
• Lands on a conventional
runway
• Xcor penned agreements
with tourism companies to
bring tourists into space
• Expected first flight date :
winter 2015

11. CHASE YOUR
DREAMS WI TH
• Dream chaser : Race-car-like
design
• Can fly manned or
unmanned
• Lands on any runway that
can handle a 737
• Good for at least 30 trips
• Expected first flight date :
2017

12. TRAVEL TO SPACE IN A
CAPSULE WI TH • High altitude space balloon
Carries 6 passengers + 2 crew members
Tourists can see the outer edge of earth
Expected flight date : 2016

13. USING SPACE
STAT IONS AS
HOTEL
• Bigelow aerospace is
testing inflatable habitat
modules
• Could be leased to space
hotels
• Shuttling supplied by
private space-transportation
companies

14. MARS ONE MISSION : A HUMAN
SET T LEMENT ON MARS BY 2 0 2 3 ?

15. SPACE TOURISM : PROS AND
CONS
• More and more
PROS CONS
affordable
spaceflights
• Serious
investments
• Boosts economic
growth
• Undesirable
environmental
effects
• Social disparities

16. « We need men who can dream of things that
never were. »
- JOHN F I T ZGERALD KENNEDY

17. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
AT TENT ION
BOUGUEZ Z I SAMI @SAMIBOUG ON