Public Space News (9-13 June)
Space tourism involves traveling to space for recreational, leisure, or business purposes, typically involving paying a fee to travel aboard spacecraft designed for this purpose. Early commercial concepts emerged in the mid-20th century, with milestones such as Dennis Tito becoming the first self-funded space tourist in 2001, Mark Shuttleworth becoming the first African in space, and SpaceShipOne winning the Ansari X Prize in 2004. Companies like Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, and SpaceX are pioneering commercial space tourism, expanding access beyond government astronauts to private individuals.
- Artemis program
- Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4)
- Boeing Starliner
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Falcon 9 rocket
- Gaganyaan program
- Human spaceflight programs
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- International cooperation
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- ISS spacewalk
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- Jeanette Epps
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- Smile mission.
- SpaceX
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Meet Axiom-4 Pilot Shubanshu Shukla (Space People)
Axiom Space is set to launch the first Indian astronaut to orbit since 1984, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, on the Ax-4 mission. The four-person mission will conduct research and tech demonstrations aboard the ISS for 14 days, with contributions from over 30 countries.
- Astronaut team
- Ax-4 Mission
- Axiom Space
- Cumulative time in space
- European Space Agency
- Experiments
- Gaganyaan
- Human spaceflight
- Indian astronaut
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- International Space Station (ISS)
- Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
- Large Hadron Collider
- Orbital human spaceflight.
- Peggy Whitson
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi
- Rakesh Sharma
- Research and technology demonstrations
- Shubhanshu Shukla
- Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski
- Space mission
- Spaceflight
- Tibor Kapu
- Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre