England lost the football championship, but the space race has been won by a billionaire businessman from England itself. Today we will tell you about a future holiday destination, whose distance from Delhi is only 408 kilometers. We are talking about space, where the present International Space Station may soon become a new tourist spot.
Last night, British billionaire Richard Branson flew to space in a spacecraft named VSS Unity. This spacecraft was built by his own company, which is named Virgin Galactic.
With this success, 70-year-old Richard Branson and his company have achieved an edge in the field of space tourism. After 8 days from today i.e. on July 20, Jeff Bezos, the world's richest industrialist and owner of Amazon, will fly to space with his company Blue Origin's Spacecraft.
Along with Richard Branson, three crew members and two pilots were also involved in this flight. Among them was Sirisha Bandla of Indian origin, who is at the post of Vice President in the company of Richard Branson.
Richard Branson's company has been working on this plan for 17 years to promote Space Tourism. The world's first space port has been built especially for space tourism in New Mexico, America and from here the spaceship of Vergin Galactic flew to space. Just as there are airports for planes, in the same way, space ports are being built for rockets going to space in different countries of the world.
The duration of this flight was 90 minutes from launching to landing back on Earth. But VSS Unity remained in space for only four minutes. After being in space for about 4 minutes, this spacecraft of Richard Branson came back after touching the edge of space.
The 6 people who flew into space include Sirisha Bandla. She became the third woman of Indian origin to go into space after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams. 34-year-old Sirisha is originally from Andhra Pradesh, India. Sirisha moved to America at the age of 4 and she and her family live in Houston city of America.
As we told you that after Richard Branson, now on July 20, Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, will also go to space with his own company's spacecraft. Apart from this, the world's second-richest industrialist Elon Musk's Space Company will also start taking ordinary people into space by the end of this year. That is, by the end of this year, a new war will start between the three big companies of the world regarding space tourism.
Now let us tell you how much money will have to be spent to travel to space with the help of private space companies.
Richard Branson's company will charge an astronaut Rs 2 crore for this, whereas to book a seat in Jeff Bezos's company's spacecraft, you will have to spend one crore 60 lakh rupees.
How much will Elon Musk's company charge for this work has not been disclosed yet.
However, a disadvantage of this new space race can be that the kind of traffic jams that are on the roads, there is a possibility of traffic jams in space. Perhaps that is why all these private companies are working on creating Dedicated Routes for their own Space Flights. Apart from this, thousands of satellites are also present in Earth's orbit and space.
According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, more than 11,000 satellites have been launched into space so far. Out of which about seven and a half thousand satellites are still active, while the rest of the satellites have either been destroyed by burning or are still roaming in space in the form of debris. The fragments of some of these satellites are very large in size and are in danger of colliding with the Earth.
