Private Space Companies and the Future of Space Travel

Ever dreamt of traveling into space? Well, private space travel may soon become a reality. With plans for the world’s first commercial spaceport being made in Sierra County, New Mexico space travel may soon become common. It used to be impossible to even think about building your own spaceship and spaceship company to take people into space, but now people have even signed up to become the first space tourists. 

Although this trip would be an expensive one, costing around 200,000 dollars per person, but as space travel becomes more common place this price will surely come down. Richard Branson is the first businessman to venture into this field but assure people that the future will see space travel to become more commonplace.

Space travel is with no doubt extremely risky and expensive, so only those governments with thick enough wallets are able to test it out. Although this is still in its testing phase, with almost 15 months of testing before the first trip, but Branson’s company is aiming towards space tourism, and many other companies are joining in to get a share of the market 

With NSA helping out these companies to get the first tourism space shuttle out into space, there is a lot of promotion of other competitors to join in on the project. Astronauts have been shipping out to space for almost five decades and now it's time that the commercial industry takes part of this and optimize the technology for more reliable and lower-cost trips. This means that we may be seeing similar developments like with what happened with the aircraft business.

Soon taking a trip to the moon might swell be as easy as taking a flight to Florida. This transition into the private sector is a huge step towards bringing the future closer. Although the transition may be more gradual to avoid any unwanted accidents, but bug risks come with big rewards so the aim is to make the transition a successful one.

Once successful, many more competitors will emerge into the scene taking space travel to an even more commercial scale. Although catching an affordable flight to Jupiter might still be in the distant future, yet the first steps have been taken and let’s just hope that that future comes sooner than we expect!