Why Don’t We Take A Trip To The Moon?

Would you like to take a trip to the moon or some other planet? How about just being able to go on a tour of the universe? Well this has already begun to happen starting back in 2001. Regular citizens taking a trip in a space shuttle to see the moon. A vacation like no other. Back then a tourist named Gregory Olsen and the twelfth ISS crew took off from Cosmodrome launch pad in a Soyuz TMA-7 at midnight eastern standard time on October 1. He was not considered a tourist, he was called a space flight participant and did however pay $20 million to join the crew and go on a flight to the moon. After that Dennis Tito was the first paying tourist on April 2001 also handing over a hefty $20 million to take the flight. Then there was Mark Shuttleworth in April 2002, paying again $20 million. These men are what are being referred to as an elite group of space tourists.

As strange as it may sound, space tourism is now here and it is continuing to grow. The more people who participate the less it will begin to cost to deliver these space tours. Many Americans are willing and want to try this new form of entertainment and are willing to pay around $10 thousand to do it.

However, right now Russia controls the market and it is currently a private enterprise. For this to become mainstream a corporation would need to take it over and invest the time in money, along with the government to make sure all flights go smoothly.

As it stands currently, there are laws that dictate out space travel and restrict private entities from doing business. However, the good news is, is that President Bush signed into law the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act on December 23, 2004 that will help advance and regulate the development of tourist space flight. As other countries possibly adopt the same type of acts, this will raise the quality and safety standards making space tourism safer and create standardizations.

Possibly the best solution would be to create an international treaty that would promote private enterprises to do this type of business and it would then be treated more like any other business with the same insurances and safety requirements to go along with it.

As time goes on we will probably begin to see more and more people looking to take a flight to the moon, which is if they can afford it. One day we may all be able to. Who knows, going to the moon could become as common place as traveling to another country.

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