⦁ Does it possible be that space tourism becomes any commercial activity that offers space travelling customers direct or indirect experience with space travel?
Such activities may have many different designs, ranging from long-term stays in orbital facilities ot short-term orbital or suborbital flights, and even parabolic flights in an aircraft exposing passengers to short periods of weightlessness. However, flights into outer space by private individuals are finding increased attention in the public when they can feel what the space travelling experience is. I believe that future space tourism may be a kind of space travel activity for recreational, leisure, or business purposes. Space tourism is the term broadly applied to the concept of paying customers travelling beyond earth's atmosphere. It can be also defined to include not only the vehicles that take public passengers into space, but also from the perspective of the different space travelling destination from different planets in possible future.
As such, the industry can be envisioned to include not only earth based attractions that simulate the space experience, such as space theme parks, space training camps, virtual reality facilities, space hotels ( skotel), multimedia interactive games, and tele robotic, moon rovers controlled from earth, spce cinema and space gardens and space forests, but also parabolic flights, vertical suborbital flights lasting up to three days, or week long stay at floating space travel, including participatory space education to students, e.g. future many private space travelers do not feel that they are "space tourist" role, when their space tourism aim is an observer, since they also carrired out scientific experiments in the course of space journey. However, space tourism may be defined that customers go on a quick ballistic flight in a space craft into space, get a few minutes of weightlessness and then return to the earth, without reaching orbiting, passengers would experience three to six minutes of weightlessness, a view of twinkle free starfield and the vista of the curved earth below commonly.
This kind of future space journey will be one kind of space short journey feeling to any one space travel to compare to space long jounrey, such as moon trips, space holiday on the moon, space tourism to other planets. Future space experience options may include as below:
Parabolic flight, flying on a passenger jet in a series of parabolic arcs to create brief periods of weightlessness, total flight duration is 90 minutes, 30 second bursts for a total of 10 minutes weightlessness feeling, one hour briefing training, passenger capacity per flight may be up to 30 people, price per person not including transportation to launch site, the cheapest price is US$5,200; maximim altitude is 34, 000 feet, 6 miles, it can bring similar to the view from a commercial airliner.
The another space experience option is high altitude ballon flight, it is a ballon ride in a commercially built " gondola" to the upper reaches of the atmosphere, total flight duration is between 3 to 4 hours, brief periods of reduced gravity may be possible during descent weightlessness, it requires 1 hour training, passenger capacity ( per flight) may be up to four people, price per person ( not including transportation to launch site) may be US$155,000, maximum altitude is 118,000 feet ( 22 miles), curvature of the Earth, blackness of space, and thin blue layer of the atmosphere view.