Space tourism is a recent phenomenon of tourists paying for flights into space. As of 2009, only the Russian Space Agency provided transport to the International Space Station for $20-35 million per seat. The first space tourist was Dennis Tito in 2001. Space tourists must undergo training, learn about spaceflight basics, follow a special diet, and wear a pressurized space suit. Life in space involves taking photographs of Earth from orbit and adjusting to microgravity conditions like sleeping in attached sleeping bags. Major space stations that space tourists can visit include the International Space Station and several previous Russian stations.

1. SPACE TOURISM

3. SPACE TOURISM
Space tourism is the recent phenomenon
of tourists paying for flights into space. As
of 2009, orbital space tourism
opportunities are limited and
expensive, with only the Russian Space
Agency providing transport. The price for
a flight brokered by Space Adventures to
the International Space Station aboard a
Soyuz spacecraft is US$20–35 million.

4. On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito became the first
"fee-paying" space tourist when he visited the
International Space Station (ISS) for seven days. He
was followed in 2002 by South African computer
millionaire Mark Shuttleworth. The third was
Gregory Olsen in 2005, who was trained as a
scientist and whose company produced specialist
high-sensitivity cameras. Olsen planned to use his
time on the ISS to conduct a number of
experiments, in part to test his company's
products.
SPACE TOURISM

5. 2001: A Space Adventure
Dennis Tito (US)
Soyuz TM-32, Apr 2001
Greg Olsen (US)
Soyuz TMA-7, Oct 2005
Mark Shuttleworth
(S. Africa/UK)
Soyuz TM-34, Apr 2002
Anousheh Ansari (Iran/US)
Soyuz TMA-9, Sep 2006
Charles Simonyi
(Hungary/US)
Soyuz TMA-10, Apr 2007
Richard Garriott (UK/US)
Soyuz TMA-13, Oct 2008
US company Space Adventures forms agreement with Russian Space Agency
for space tourism trips to International Space Station. Cost $20-30 million

6. Most recent….
Space tourist Nationality Year Duration of flight
Guy Laliberté Canadian 2009 9 days (Sept 30 – Oct 11)
Launch: Soyuz TMA-16 Return: Soyuz TMA-14
SPACE TOURIST

7. In December 2005, the U.S. Government released a set of
proposed rules for space tourism. These included screening
procedures and training for emergency situations, but not
health requirements.
Under current US law, any company proposing to launch
paying passengers from American soil on a suborbital rocket
must receive a license from the Federal Aviation
Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation
(FAA/AST). The licensing process focuses on public safety
and safety of property, and the details can be found in the
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 14, Chapter III. This is in
accordance with the Commercial Space Launch
Amendments Act passed by Congress in 2004
Legality
United States
SPACE TOURISM

8. 10 Space Tourism
Facts You Need to
Know

9. 1. As of 2008, only Russia
is offering civilian tickets
into space. Consider
remortgaging your house
before you leave; tickets
are currently on the
market for a sweet $20
million, and they‟re full
until 2009. There is a
rumor that EasyJet are
going to be offering free
flights to the Sea of
Tranquility, with the
booking fee estimated
around the $10 million
mark, or $80 one way.
Plus taxes.
Sputnik - Russia’s most advanced
Satellite.

10. 2. Space Ship One was the first
private vehicle to fly above the
Kármán Line in 2004. The Kármán
Line is where the Earth‟s
atmosphere ends and outer space
begins. The line was devised by
Theodore von Kármán and is the
altitude at which traditional plane
wings don‟t work anymore, sheer
speed being all that keeps you in
the sky. The Space Ship One is
capable of travelling at Mach
3, which is roughly equivalent to
very, very fast.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - it’s a
business opportunity.

11. Virgin Galactic: SpaceShipTwo
SpaceShipTwo/WhiteKnightTwo
6 passengers & 2 pilots to 100km+
Tickets $200,000 per seat
First test flights: summer 2008
First commercial flight: 2010?
3. Virgin Galactic aims to be
the first commercial venture
to fly civilians into space,
allowing them to experience
weightlessness for up to six
minutes at a time.

12. •
4. There are a variety of
Space Tourism websites on
the internet, all with
horrendous colour
schemes. If the spacecraft
engineering is as bad as
the website design, there
will be many, many
fatalities. A quick Google
image search reveals the
chilling truth that space
tourism is still mainly based
on cartoon diagrams.
Space drawings look suspiciously like a
Lear Jet.

13. •
5. The first space tourist was Dennis Tito (not
he of the Jackson 5) who flew to the
International Space Station on 2001, powered
entirely by his own sense of self-satisfaction.
Tito asked not to be called a tourist but an
‘independent researcher’.

14. •6. Getting there is indeed
half the fun, but what about
accomodation? If you’re
planning to stay in space for
a long weekend there is,
literally, only one place to
go: the International Space
Station. Still under
construction, this high-rise
hotel offers the latest in
amenities, including the
thrilling Multipurpose
Laboratory Module, the
heart-pounding excitement
of Node 3, and the small,
yet comfortable Mini-
Research Module 1.
The International Space Station, still
more spacious than a Travel Inn.

15. 7. Apart from Virgin
Galactic, there are several
other parties who have
expressed interest in
venturing into the space
tourism market, including
Space Adventures, Space
Island Group and Bigelow
Aerospace. Owned by
Robert Bigelow, the
company aims to provide
affordable space stations
for corporations. Another
cracker is Armadillo
Aerospace.

16. •
8. The aforementioned Space Ship One was
the winner of the Ansari X-Prize, which
offered $10 million to anyone who could
build a spaceship that could carry three
adults to a height of 100km and return to
Earth safely. This last point was quite
important, and included stipulations that
there could be no broken bones or severe
damage incurred. The winning spacecraft
also had to complete a second identical flight
within two weeks, using the same craft.

17. The Ansari X-Prize & SpaceShipOne
Ansari X-Prize:
$10 million for first vehicle to carry 3
people (or 1+equivalent mass)
to 100km and back twice in two weeks.
Winner:
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
designed by Burt Rutan.
Programme cost $25-30 million
Technology licensed to Virgin Galactic
for passenger-carrying service.

18. 9. While the above companies
are mucking about with getting
us ordinary folk into space, NASA
are currently finishing off plans
for Orion, the successor to the
Space Shuttle. Unlike the
Shuttle, Orion will consist of two
different vehicles, one intended
to take people into space, and
one intended to take people and
payloads into space. The craft is
intended to provide transport to
the Moon, something which the
Shuttle was incapable of. Both
vehicles will be so big that a
human being will be shorter than
the US flag NASA is planning to
paint on the side of them.
The Orion - The Space Shuttle’s
Successor.

19. 10. Before it’s even
properly begun, Space
Tourism has a society
called… the Space
Tourism Society. Based
primarily in
California, its goal is to
encourage as many
people as possible to
head into space.

20. •
A day in the life of a Space Tourist
Many people think that Space
tourists have a very nice and
relaxing trip. That is correct in
some ways and incorrect in
others.

21. How to prepare
• Before you take your Flight into space you are
required to pass a physical to make sure you
can handle the stressful conditions of space
flight. All space Tourists who want to take a
flight to the ISS in a Soyuz taxi mission must go
through a thorough medical exam before
taking off.

22. • Space tourists should begin training several
days to a few weeks before the tests. A regular
exercise program is mandatory as part of a
space tourists preflight training. A proper diet
is also necessary to pass the preflight medical
check-up. Excess alcohol and caffeine should
be avoided. Smoking should also be avoided.

23. These people can’t be space
tourists:
• Minors
• People with physical impairments or disabilities that
may prevent them from safely evacuating a space
station or ejecting from an aircraft
• People with serious heart problems
• People with serious coronary artery disease
• People with major diseases affecting their organs
• People with severe vertigo or claustrophobia

24. • Space Tourists have to have a basic
understanding of astrodynamics.
Astrodynamics is the motion of objects in
space. Space tourists should know:
• What is an orbit
• What is gravity
• What is escape velocity
• What is weightlessness (microgravity)
Other than passing a physical exam, space tourists have
to learn about some “elementary scientific topics.”

25. In a classroom a space tourist also learns about the four
major types of rockets and spacecrafts used to send
space tourists into space. They are:
• Expendable
• Reusable Launch Vehicle or RLV
• Vertically launched
• Horizontally launched

26. Space Food
Space food is food that is made for conditions
in space, mainly gravity-less food that is non-
perishable, some foods like salt and pepper
are available but they are not available in
their rocky form, in space they are made into
a liquid so they will not get in the way of the
astronauts.

27. •The first space food was very unappetizing.
Most of it was squeezed from tubes like
toothpaste, or made into freeze-dried bites.
John Glenn, the first American to eat food in
space, also found the menu was very limited.
The astronauts complained that the freeze-
dried foods were hard to rehydrate and they
had to keep crumbs from ruining their
instruments, so the space scientists improved
their food. Astronauts could eat apple sauce
and even butterscotch pudding.

28. Categories of Food
• Rehydratable (R) Foods - During the flight, water is added back to food just
before it is eaten.
• Thermostabalized (T) - Foods are heat processed to destroy harmful
microorganisms and enzymes.
• Intermediate Moisture (IM) - Food items that are preserved by restricting
the amount of water for microbial growth yet, giving the food a soft
texture.
• Natural Form (NF) - Ready to eat foods such as nuts, cookies and granola
bars.
• Irradiated (I) Meat - beef steak
• Condiments - liquid salt and pepper, ketchup, and mustard.
• Shelf Stable Tortillas - Tortillas that have the oxygen removed to prevent
the growth of mold on them.
• Fresh Foods (FF)- normal hydrated foods that need to be eaten within the
first two days of flight to prevent spoilage.
• Beverages (B) - drinks

29. Rehydratable Food
• food where water is
removed from the food
making it easier to
store, before the food is
eaten again, water is re-
added to the food
before it is eaten

30. Thermostablized Food:
• food which can be
placed in room
temperature and are
placed in cans, some
foods that are
thermostablized are
tuna fish and fruits

31. Intermediate Moisture Food:
• food where water is
taken out but enough
water is left to preserve
the softness of the
food, some foods like
these are dried
peaches, beef jerky, and
pears

32. Natural Food Form:
• food where it is ready
to eat and packed in
flexible pouches or
bags, some of these
foods are nuts, granola
bars and cookies

33. Irradiated Food:
• food where it is
wrapped in foil pouches
and the food is then
sterilized by ionizing
radiation (forming
everything into ions)

34. Frozen Food:
• quick frozen to prevent
large ice crystals and to
make sure that the
texture and quality of
the food stays the same

35. Fresh Food:
• food that is fresh like
we have on Earth

36. Refrigerated Food:
• foods that need cold or
cool temperatures to
make sure that it will
not spoil

37. • The Apollo astronauts were the first to have hot water and
the spoon bowl, a container you eat out of with a spoon. Soon
astronauts had a dining hall, table, a large storage area, and
the first space freezer and refrigerator. Plus they could hold
themselves down by the table with footholds.
• An astronaut’s food is prepared on Earth. Diets and meals
items are made to have the right amount of vitamins and
minerals needed in space. Shuttle astronauts now have a
large list of food items and can even design their own menus.
The shuttle contains a water dispenser for rehydrating food
and an oven for warming foods to the proper serving
temperature.

38. • In a space meal, a meal tray is used to hold food
containers, and can be strapped to a wall. The meal
tray is rather like an airplane tray, and some airplane
food containers look like space ones. Astronauts use
the same utensils we do: a fork, spoon, and knife.
The only odd utensils are scissors for cutting open
plastic seals. Most menus and food items an
astronaut wants can be set up in about 5 minutes.
Heating rehydrating foods can take about 20 – 30
minutes.

39. • The Space Station food system is very different
from shuttle food system. There is no extra
water in the Space Station and the power
source is solar panels. Unlike shuttle food, the
Space Station food is frozen, refrigerated, or
thermostabilized so as not to use up any water
to make them ready. Most beverages,
however, are in dehydrated form.

40. Space language
• The Space Tourists also have to learn
“language training.” Language training is not a
space tourist having to learn a whole other
language, but a space tourist having to learn
certain words from the language that will be
used in space. For example, if a space tourist
speaks English fluently, but is flying on a
Soyuz, they will need to learn some Russian
words so they can communicate better.

41. Space suit…
• Space tourists must also undergo spacesuit
and equipment training. Space tourists who
are going to the Space Station are required to
wear a special suit during launch and reentry
called the Sokol. The Sokol SK-1 is designed
just for space tourists and it has 5 main
functions

42. They are the following:
• Protection from loss oxygen
• Protection from loss of cabin/capsule pressure
• Protection from frigid air and water
temperatures
• Protection from extreme heat and flame
• Protection from blood pooling caused by
weightlessness

43. Life in Space
• Life in space is very different from life on Earth. A space
tourist can find a lot of things to photograph, here are just a
few.
• The Great Wall of China
• Mount Everest
• The Amazon River
• The Bahamas
• Hurricanes
• Volcanic Eruptions
• Lightning Storms
• The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis

44. Sleeping….
Sleeping in space can be difficult because the spacecraft is
orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes; this makes it so that
the craft is never completely in darkness for very long. Also
the lights may be on because the crew works in shifts.
Motion sickness and warming rays of the sun may also
disrupt a Space tourists sleep. A space tourist gets a
sleeping mask to keep out most of the light. The sleeping
quarters of a space tourist vary on the spacecraft they are
in. A space tourist will probably sleep in a special sleeping
bag that is attached to the wall. Without the
attachment, the space tourist would float freely around the
cabin bumping into things and possibly getting hurt.

45. What is a space station?
• A space station is where experiments are
conducted in outer space . It is a place
for astronauts to live in while they
conduct these experiments. It can be in
space anywhere from a day to many
years.

46. What are some space stations in
use today?
• Some of the space stations
include the Salyut
stations, Skylab, Mir, and the
International Space Stations (ISS).

47. Space Station Missions : Salyut 1-7

48. Space Station Missions :Skylab 1-4

49. Space Station Missions : Mir

50. Space Station Missions : The ISS

51. Environmental Impact of Space Tourism
Carbon footprint
Toxic pollution
Effect on wildlife
Noise pollution – sonic boom
Emissions in upper atmosphere
EPA
spaceport
assessment
Debris hazard from in-flight
accidents
FAA vehicle
certification

52. Benefits of Space Tourism
Personal experience – the „overview effect‟
Variety of technical approaches (not “one true way”)
Incremental development (“build a little, test a little”)
Safer and more robust spacecraft
Much easier access for space science experiments
Cheaper, more routine access to space
MONEY TO FUND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT!

53. The Future
“Kankoh Maru”
Design study for VTVL SSTO by
Japan Rocket Society
50 passengers to orbit
“Skylon”
UK design for HTHL SSTO
using airbreathing rockets
60 passengers to orbit
Tickets “less than £50,000”

54. From far underground to way
in the sky, a space hotel
actually allows you to orbit
the earth as you enjoy an
amazing experience in outer
space. Although there
currently are no space hotels
available for guests, there are
a couple different companies
that expect to have their
space hotels available in 2012.
Of course, before you can
spend the night in one of
these hotels, you will first
need to undergo some space
training. That way, you can be
safe in space while also
getting the absolute most
from your outer space
adventure.