let her be the abyss or spaceAdventure has always fascinated man, who since ancient times has done everything to challenge the sky and sea and experience them from within. As scientistas explorerhow simple touristseasy, so to speak, in view of the costs to be managed.
Hamisc Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Stockton Rush, and Paul-Henry Nargeolet. All aboard the submarine (Ansa)
We certainly don’t need to bother or remind Icarus or Bartolomeu da Gusmao Jules Verne who has used his imagination to travel both the sky and the center of the earth, or come across the imaginative race of Flying Car Daredevils (1965) or the Arthur Clarke novels (2001: A Space Odyssey) with relatives masterpiece film by Stanley Kubrick) and finally a Valentina Tereskova, the first female cosmonaut sixty years ago who was not really a military woman and was chosen by the Soviets only because she was related to war heroes. But it’s been the wish of those who can afford it for the last twenty years an interstellar adventure or in the depths of the oceans has grown and so great entrepreneurs, masters in their fields, have tried to do so We are fulfilling a dream we all had as children: to be astronauts. Oh diver.
The first to speak of space tourism was Richard Bransonthe visionary British entrepreneur who founded this Virgin Galactic Unity 22; With his shuttle and five paying guests, he reached an altitude of 89 kilometers on July 11, 2021. In Branson’s entourage, two other tycoons even richer than the Englishman designed space shuttles for tourists: Jeff Bezos with Blu Origin and Elon Musk with SpaceX whose crewed Dragon Endeavor plane brought four amateur astronauts to the International Space Station on April 9, 2022: ticket cost 55 million dollars, certainly not an experience for everyone.
But before tourism is open to all who can afford it ticket cost Through shuttles from private companies, there were other “simple” citizens, apparently also without economic problems, who “bought” a trip on board the Soyuz to the ISS.
The first was American businessman Dennis Tito, who paid $20 million for a trip with the Space Adventures company and stayed aboard the International Station for seven days, beginning April 28, 2001, 400 kilometers above the Earth. After him, six others made the same journey and enjoyed life without gravity. There are also many projects – Soviet, South African, Japanese and Anglo-Saxon – that they have stumbled over costs and technical difficulties.
However, NASA had in 1985 sent Congressmen Jake Garn and Bill Nelson into space in the shuttle To persuade Congress to allocate new funds for missions, it paid for the consequences of the January 28, 1986 tragedy when the Challenger explosion killed Christa McAuliffe, a teacher with six other astronauts who had been the first to test the Teacher in-Space program.
However, registrations for Branson, Bezos and Musk’s trips are still open You risk overbooking Due to popular demand, prices are dropping somewhat, and Branson, for example, is welcoming passengers on its Virgin Galactic who spend $200,000 to spend a few minutes under the stars, 100 kilometers from Earth.
A similar argument can be made for abyss exploration, which was resurrected in public opinion after the dramatic attempt by billionaires who paid $250,000 to visit the Titanic. A project is about to start Fabien CousteauGrandson of the famous explorer Jacques-Yves: is called proteus and it’s a sort of “station” at a depth of 18 meters that welcomes scientists and tourists, whom Fabien likes to call aquanauts. The station is positioned off the Dutch island of Curaçao in the Caribbean. Twelve people take part in the missions, four of them are paid VIP tourists. However, they must make a contribution of at least 50,000 euros (between 7 days and three months, depending on the stay) to the scientific missions carried out on the platform. “At the moment – Cousteau explains – we have only explored 5 percent of the oceans. We must move on, and not just out of curiosity, but because the ocean is our life support system.”
For those who love the sea, there are also some heavenly hotels where part of their structure is submerged and which allow their guests to sleep with tens of thousands of fish. At the Atlantis Palm in Dubai you spend around 600 euros per person and night.
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It’s held a million per ride the total price for the four tourists who want to visit Titanic wreck with Ocean Gate, the gateway to the ocean, which also offers a visit to the Hudson Canyon off the coast of New York with its submarines and also wants to expand to other wrecks. “We want to reach the hydrothermal vents at the center of the earth,” says tycoon Stockton Rush, president of the company. Who knows if his Titan’s latest story will further fuel his dreams of becoming a Master of the Abyss.