The Possible Future Of Air Travel
Tuesday 18th March 2008EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) has claimed that a production line of space planes will be needed to meet the demand of future space tourists.
The companys Astrium Department who also build the Ariane rocket say that a vehicle capable of taking paying passengers to 100km is on the drawing board. Research has indicated that some 15,000 people would be prepared to pay £160,000 for an hour and a half flight that would take them out of the earths atmosphere and into space allowing them to also experience weightlessness.
It is widely accepted that Sir Richard Branson's spacecraft will be the first into space however many other groups are looking to cash in on the lucrative market that is space tourism.
Not only is space seen as a great destination for pleasure flights but a viable alternative to lengthy airliner flights. Travelling in space is exceptionally faster than travelling within the earths atmosphere. BBC News interviewed Robert Laine, chief technical officer (CTO) of the pan-European company who said, "Today we don't know how to go to space cheaply. Being able to climb on a regular basis to 100km will give us the motivation to develop the plane that goes, not just up and down to the same place, but from here to the other side of the Earth. When the Ariane 5 takes off (a commercial payload lifting rocket), 15 minutes later it is over Europe; and 45 minutes later it is over the Pacific. The fastest way is to go outside the atmosphere and that will be the future."
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Published by: Jon Vickery
