will space travel ever be available to the average person?

Answer 1

Virgin is actually planning space trips where people will experience zero-gravity for three minutes, but it's a long way off from becoming a reality. You can book tickets for $200,000 (£105,524). But I suppose in a few decades the prices will begin coming down, and heck, maybe in the future average people will be able to go up into space.

Answer 2

My Bank Manager asked me what i was saving for - a holiday home, a flash car, a bigger house ?. I told her that I was saving to go into space. She laughed openly. None of the things she mentioned would be out of the ordinary and would almost certainly cost at least as much as a Virgin Galactic ticket. I earn a good wage but I am an average guy. Average guy's buy flash cars and holiday homes so i suppose with Virgin Galactic they can also go into space.

Answer 3

I believe the answer is yes. The science is still in its infancy, so great strides are yet to come. But, I also believe that space travel will only be viable for governments and the very wealthy for at least one or two more generations. It will be a long time before burger flippers get to blast off.

Answer 4

One day it will, if the engineers tell the accountantants to bugger off and let them design a real space craft, not some on the cheap, made in taiwan out of reconditioned washing machine parts and old paper tax returns, type bodge job, that is all the western world seems to be allowed to design and build at the moment.

Sack the Accountants say I, for their lack of imagination is stunting the progress of the human race.

Answer 5

I once asked this question to the leader of an organisation who was participating in the X-Prize. His answer was that within 15 years of someone winning the X-Prize, that it would be possible to get a suborbital joyride flight for about 10,000 pounds. Since the X-Prize was won in 2004, that would mean in the year 2019-2020.

To begin with, Virgin Galactic will be offering flights for approx £115,000 in a few years time. In time, that price may fall, and there may be other people operating flights. Competition and research/development will help to bring the price down.

Answer 6

so some distance the furthest we've long previous is around 3 hundred,000 kilometers that's a coarse determine for the area from the Earth to the Moon. If we had the flexibility to return and forth swifter in area or postpone our foodstuff and oxygen grant could ought to pass a lot added.

Answer 7

Depends on your definition of average. The fuel costs are huge, so it won't be available to anyone who is not at least quite well off.

Answer 8

nope because the nasa people wont let any one travel throughspace because then the loose a lote more money than just spending on space meterial

Answer 9

yes the average person who is an astronought

Answer 10

This question is not terrorist-related -- how did it get posted?

Space travel is for the well-heeled -- and not for the timid.