Nasa to open International Space Station to tourists👉🏻 მე, 1 დოლარადაც არ
შემიძლია🥴 ვინმემ მომიყევით მერე შთაბეჭდილებები✌🏻 Nasa is to allow tourists to
visit the International Space Station from 2020, priced at $35,000 (£27,500) per
night. The US space agency said it would open the orbiting station to tourism
and other business ventures. There will be up to two short private astronaut
missions per year, said Robyn Gatens, the deputy director of the ISS. Nasa said
that private astronauts would be permitted to travel to the ISS for up to 30
days, travelling on US spacecraft. "Nasa is opening the International Space
Station to commercial opportunities and marketing these opportunities as we've
never done before," chief financial officer Jeff DeWit said in New York. Nasa
said that private commercial entities would be responsible for determining crew
composition and ensuring that the private astronauts meet the medical and
training requirements for spaceflight. The two companies hired by Nasa are Elon
Musk's SpaceX, which will use its Dragon capsule, and Boeing, which is building
a spacecraft called the Starliner. These companies are likely to charge any
private astronaut a similar "taxi fare" to what they intend to charge Nasa for
its astronauts - close to $60m per flight. Nasa had previously banned any
commercial use of the space station and prohibited astronauts from taking part
in for-profit research. Nasa does not own the station however - it was built,
beginning in 1998, with Russia, which has taken a more relaxed approach in
recent decades to commerce. In 2001, US businessman Dennis Tito became the first
tourist to visit when he paid Russia around $20 million for a round trip. Nasa's
announcement on Friday is part of a move towards full privatisation of the ISS.
US President Donald Trump published a budget last year which called for the
station to be defunded by the government by 2025. The space agency recently
announced that it planned to return to the moon by 2024, taking the first woman
there and the first person in decades.
