Important Innovations

  Space Balloons For a Leisurely Space Visit Source:  Space Perspective Space Trip With No Rockets & No Rocket Fuel Space Perspective, a human space flight company based in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is offering a unique space adventure.  Luxury balloon trips to 20 miles above the Earth into the stratosphere. There are no rockets and no rocket fuel involved.  The company says it is a safer and smoother way to experience the edges of space.  In fact, the approach is completely different from a rocket flight.  The space craft takes off at a leisurely pace of 12 mph.  A huge hot air balloon gently carries the passenger capsule aloft into the upper atmosphere and then gently returns it for a splashdown in the ocean, according to the company. Passenger Tickets to Space Space Perspective has started selling tickets for the first trip in late 2024 aboard the Spaceship Neptune.  It's a hot air balloon type space vehicle that gets lift from hydrogen.  The company is taking $1,000 deposits

NASA's New Tourist Destination:  ISS Source:  Axiom NASA Partners with Axiom Space exploration company Axiom of Houston, Texas  is partnering with NASA for a big launch of space tourism.  Tourists will be able to visit the International Space Station (ISS) as early as 2024. Axiom is a private US space station manufacturer that is building, what it hopes will be, the world's first commercial, international space station.  CEO Michael Suffredini is the former program manager of the ISS for NASA.  This is a big business alliance, with tremendous expertise behind it, for launching tourists into space. Advanced Luxury Space "Hotel" Priced as High as $35,000 The Axiom space vehicle is an impressive piece of technology. First of all, it will be led by a trained astronaut, have a crew and also research labs on board.   It  has the biggest space observation window ever built into a space capsule and the state-of-the art interior was designed by the top French-b

First European Spaceports for Space Tourists Source:  Cornwall, UK image UK in Cornwall and Scotland The UK has signed on to launch destinations for  tourist space vacations.  They're developing spaceports for tourists to take off and land from their vacations in space. The spaceports will be in Cornwall and in the Scottish Highlands. The UK is also working on the regulations.  For more details, go to Important Innovations Collection: UK Providing SpacePorts for Space Vacations : Britain Joins Space Tourism Race Source:  Virgin Galactic Readies for Blast-Off Britain will provide Europe's first spaceports...

Total Eclipse of the Sun in Chile Source:  NASA Chile's Astronomical Tourists The brilliantly clear skies above northern Chile will host a total eclipse of the sun in early July.  It is drawing a new and innovative type of tourism.  Visitors who want to witness first hand a very rare sight through crystal clear skies and see global phenomena at their best in real time. Flights and Hotel Rooms Going Like Hot Cakes Many hotels have no rooms left in Northern Chile for the solar and lunar event.  Flights are also being books out quickly. Chile and the Skies Chile is considered paradise for astronomers.  There are dozens of powerful telescopes, advanced technology and astronomical research studies underway.  Of interest, total eclipses are a very rare occurrence.  At any particular location, they occur once in 360 years.  This early July event will be visible in parts of Argentina and New Zealand.  What a fabulous sight!  Puts the beauty of the universe in full perspective

Tourist Space Vacations Source:  NASA - ISS NASA To Bring Private Citizens to International Space Station This is a first and a strong harbinger of the commercialization of space. NASA, for $50 million +++ will fly private citizens to the International Space Station, starting in early 2020.  It would be the ultimate vacation onboard the ISS for up to thirty days and the ultimate field trip into outer space for research.  For at the look at the future of space commercialization, go to  Important Innovations Collection: NASA Space Station Vacations : $50 Million ++ Flight That's Out of this World Source:  NASA - ISS Dawn of Space Tourism NASA is opening the International Space ...

Japanese Billionaire & Artists To Explore Space Aboard Space X Photo Courtesy of Space X:  Elon Musk and Yusaku Maezawa Big Trip for Space X , Bringing Tourists to Space This is a big step toward the realization of one of innovator Elon Musk's dreams:  to commercialize space and make space travel accessible to everyone.  Musk has booked his first private passenger for a trip around the Moon on Space X's Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) spaceship.  The passenger is a Japanese billionaire and innovator like Musk.  The pioneer is Yusaku Maezawa, who founded the very popular online fashion retailer Zozo. Yusaka and Friends to Orbit the Moon Yusaka says he will invite a group of 6 artists, sculptors, painters and architects to join him on the historic tourist trip to orbit the moon.  The week long space voyage is scheduled at the earliest to take off in the BFR rocket in 2023.  The adventure is designed to inspire the dreamers in all of us. BFR Spaceship The BFR hasn&#