SPACE TOURISM: A VACATION TO MARS OR A SCIENCE FICTION

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 45 - 52, 25.07.2018

Hilmi Rafet Yüncü

Abstract

When Gagarin made his first space flight, no one could have imagined that
would be turn space tourism vacation. New tourism horizons were opened when
space travel for the first time took place at the beginning of the millennium.
Since the story of Jules Verne “From the Earth to the Moon”, a trip to space
with the purpose of tourism has become a fact in a century. Space is always a
curiosity. There is a growing interest in humankind from day to day traveling
to extra-terrestrial areas. In the next 50 years’ space tourism will become a
type of tourism that everyone can easily join. Space tourism is explained as
the participation of non-professional people to the space flight with the
amount of fee. As yet Space studies have been made with military purposes.
After the end of cold war space studies have been made for a contribution to
community’s culture and economic development. This study provides a brief
overview of the space tourism possibilities and its future.

Keywords

Space Tourism, Tourism, Orbital

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