How do you choose the space trip?

If an ordinary person thought around in space around the circle, previously only to Virgin Galactic to sign up. However, with the successful test flight of a new space travel vehicle developed by a U.S. Arizona company, the option to make a space trip is one more and cheaper.

Text / Pengzhi

According to foreign media reports, the well-known British explorer Richard Branson's Virgin Galaxia is expected from 2015 onwards, paying users into space, their space tickets need a trip 150,000 British pound (about 158 ​​million yuan). But now another U.S. company will offer a cheaper option - a hot air balloon ride to get a luxury tour of quasi-space.

Enjoy a 2-hour space trip

World Landscape Corporation, based in Arizona, USA, has announced it will begin offering commercial services to its users on the edge of space by giant balloons starting in 2016 at a cost of only about $ 75,000 (about $ 476,000). The company can pay users over 30 kilometers high. Recently, the company completed a high-altitude flight test in the stratosphere to prove that its design and manufacture of the flight system and carried enclosed capsule is feasible, setting a world record.

On the 18th of this month, Worldwatch started a wing-shaped parachute aircraft from the Roseville Air Force Center in New Mexico, which lasted five hours in the air and rose to a height of about 36,000 meters. After the successful test flight of the parachute aircraft, it dropped to an altitude of about 15,000 meters and successfully tested its precision guidance landing system.

Unfortunately, I can not experience weight loss

The company's Web site wrote in an introduction that the wing-wing aircraft will be linked to the high-altitude balloons the following year, carrying the voyagers' enclosed space capsule to the edge of space for a two-hour "voyage."

According to reports, the world's landscape company designed airtight capsule can accommodate eight people, including six passengers and two crew members. Passengers can walk freely in the luxurious space capsule. There are not only bars, but also internet access. Passengers can enjoy 360 degree vista of the world below through the window on each side of the cabin. After the flight, the parachute aircraft will break away from the high-altitude balloon and the capsule will land safely on Earth.

More than 600 people booked

Currently, more than 600 people have booked space galaxy tours to Virgin Galactic, including Hollywood stars Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, British physicist Stephen Hawking, British Prince Harry and others .

In addition, there have been several super-rich once took the Russian Soyuz spacecraft experience a return trip to space, but in 2001 the Soyuz "ticket" price has already reached as high as 20 million US dollars. As the U.S. space shuttle retired in 2011, the spacecraft now capable of going back and forth to space is only the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and ticket prices are even more bullish.

However, the World Landscape Company only took passengers to a height of over 30 kilometers and passengers would not experience the same weightlessness as the Virgin Galactic Space Expedition (beyond 100 kilometers of outer space to experience the lost weight feel).