What’s Next For Travel? Millions of People May Become Astronauts!
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According to Richard Branson, a British entrepreneur and adventurer, “Spaceflight will be nearly as common for travelers as taking a plane trip became for millions across the world in the past 30 years. ” In the past three decades, he launched airlines and plans to launch spaceships soon — predicts flights such as these reflect the next breakthrough in air travel.
An adventure vacation will mean blasting off for a cruise in low-Earth orbit, and flights from New York to Sydney will take about two hours. In the next 30 years, he says, spaceflight will be nearly as common for travelers as taking a plane trip became for millions across the world in the past 30 years.
“It’s going to be an explosion of people having had the chance to go into space and enjoy the marvels of space travel,” he says. “In the past 30 years, only 500 people have been to space. I suspect in the next 30 years there may be something like 5 million people who will have had the opportunity to become astronauts.”
Space travel won’t be enjoyed only by thrill-seeking tourists, he says. The technology that permits flights into space also will allow passengers to fly to far-flung places on Earth in record time.
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