Dan Hicks

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Ketty Maison Rouge has been trying on her space suit and is ready for the take-off

Ketty Maison Rouge for 15 years, has been waiting for a trip, she knows, not of this world.

The 61-year-old business school professor signed back in 2005, for The Promise of Five Minutes in weightlessness, the payment of $250,000(£190,500) to Travel outside the earth's atmosphere.

Now The Company says that you sold The Ticket , Virgin Galactic ,, it is finally the flights to start this year. Its founder, Sir Richard Branson , will on The First trip, and Mrs Maison Rouge not far behind.

"Hopefully, it will be so amazing, I think," says Mrs Maison Rouge.

If all goes according to plan, Virgin Galactic will be The First private company, the tourists into space. The Company says that 600 people have already purchased tickets, including celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Leonardo Dicaprio .

But the competing companies are close behind. Blue Origin , started by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos , has also announced started talking to potential passengers for Travel , she hopes to start later this year, while Spacex , founded by Tesla's Elon Musk , in the year 2019, a Japanese billionaire would be The First passenger for a trip around The Moon .

Nasa has announced that it will allow the private space tourist to visit The International Space Station for a fee, Dreaming of space

In the year 2019, the Swiss bank UBS has published a report, the estimate of the space tourism could be a $3 billion industry in the next 10 years.

For Virgin Galactic , which contributed to early buyers as Mrs Maison Rouge, to prove the demand was for private space Travel - even with ticket prices to a quarter of a million dollars.

"in the location, the products are so expensive, because the space on the market in The First line contains a high premium," says Julia hunter, senior vice-president at Virgin Galactic , is responsible for the day-to-day, the manned space program.

Mrs Maison Rouge, the love of space started early. You can vividly remember the moment In July 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin was The First man to walk on The Moon for a walk.

When she learned that Virgin Galactic is offering to send ordinary people to space, they immediately rushed to sign.

Since buying has kept your ticket, Madam of Maison Rouge, their plans mostly private, share only with family, Close Friends and the other "founders" - The Group of original Virgin Galactic ticket-holders.

In November 2019, a group of them got their first chance to try on the spacesuits Design of sportswear brand Under Armour , which you can carry on your trip in the room.

"For me, it was like the realization that this is really going to happen soon," says Ms. Maison Rouge. "If you've been waiting for 15 years if she has dreamed of it for as long as you can remember, ask yourself, until it happens, if it really happen. "

Ketty Maison Rouge zero gravity "as part of your preparation

in contrast to The Astronauts of the Apollo Mission, which went through months of hard training and grueling physical ordeals, Madam of Maison Rouge, and their fellow Space Tourists take only Three Days , has experienced" to train for your trip. Virgin Galactic says it could be shorter, but you want to understand passengers", the choreography" and "the" from their experience.

you and the other co-founder also have a early chance, visit Virgin Galactic 's terminal at Spaceport America in the desert of New Mexico . The Company has a lounge with floor-to-ceiling Windows, the view starts to make a barista, fresh coffee and an interactive tour.

Virgin Galactic 's lounge is The First of what Spaceport America is hoping, many terminals in The Complex

from here, Virgin Galactic tourists on Board space ships for a 90-minute Round Trip with only a couple of minutes in low orbit. It is far more luxurious experience, the government had astronauts.

Dan Hicks , who says Spaceport America is managed for The State of New Mexico , Virgin Galactic is leading the way for this new type of Travel , and that the establishment of a day of a "full-up" Transport hub For Space Travel ".

Multi-million-dollar-trip

A quarter of a million dollars seems a high price to pay for a tourist trip. But Virgin Galactic says it expects that in the short term, the demand For Space flights to rise far faster than the supply, this could even lead to that the prices for flight tickets are on the rise.

have paid for Seven Private Citizens already, for multi-million-dollar tickets to go into space with a Russian Soyuz space flights going as far back as 2001, so that The First Space Tourists .

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has relied on Soyuz spaceships to take US astronauts to The International space station (ISS) since it ended with the shuttle program in 2011, paying about $86m per Spot .

Spacex is required to send a partnership with Nasa to astronauts in space at a cost of almost $55m per ticket

Nasa is now turning to the private companies. The Agency has signed deals with Spacex and Boeing to the US astronauts wear. The tickets do not come cheap - the Nasa pays Spacex $55m per Spot , and Boeing $90m.

space flights for government astronauts and a space tourist only part of the potential private space Travel industry. Point-to-point, the earth will leave the orbit, a $20bn sector by 2030 could Travel , according to UBS. By leaving the orbit of The Planet , traveling through The World would be a lot faster.

Spacex has already made marketing material for a 40-minute flight from New York to Shanghai, with its space-technology published.

that could mean That far more of us you get the chance, for example, in space Travel , at least in the short.

Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson celebrates after The Company became The First manned space Travel companies to list on the New York Stock Exchange

The aerospace industry has The Eye of the billionaire entrepreneur, Sir Richard, and Jeff Bezos , but also Wall Street investors caught. Virgin Galactic was The First manned flight into space, list company shares on the stock exchange in October 2019.

For many people, in the hope to make money from space tourism, to 2020 could be the year when stellar promises really begin to undress.

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Source of news: bbc.com