How SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin And Others Compete In The Space Tourism Market

This is it: 2021 will not only be the year of Mars, with the red planet taken by storm by probes and robots like Perseverance. In fact, many say that 2021 will be above all the year zero of "mass space tourism", with at least one private company ready in the coming months to launch a substantial number of travelers.
The commercial space race, among technical failures, startups that are born and die in a month,
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Always talking about space tourism from "low orbit", seems to be restricted to only three competitors.
Let's try to find out who they are, what projects they are carrying out and above all in what time frame they are planning to fulfill their promises.
Not before, however, to have given a quick review to history and remembered the pioneers of the first "tourist" flights.
Just 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, Jurij Gagarin entered history forever as the first human ever to fly into space. Since then, the privilege has only touched 567 other people: 502 men and 65 women. And, for the past 20 years, only 7 so-called tourists.
Space tourists, as they are commonly called, are private citizens who are not professional astronauts and perform space flights at their own expense relying on specialized companies.
Since 2001, the American commercial company Space Adventures has provided orbital space flights to seven tourists of different nationalities, who in their missions, lasting up to a couple of weeks, have reached the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz capsules, carrying out activities of public relations and communication, scientific research and entertainment.
The first to reach the Space Station as a tourist was 60-year-old Dennis Tito. Engineer, former Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist and American businessman. It was April 2001.
Exactly one year later it was the turn of South African Mark Shuttleworth, an entrepreneur in the software industry best known for his Ubuntu, the foundation that ensures the development of the Linux operating system. During his stay on board the ISS, Shuttleworth also conducted experiments for medical and biological research.
In October 2005 it was the American engineer Greg Olsen, born in 1945 and co-founder of Sensors Unlimited, a company in the optoelectronic sector, to set foot on the Station, while in October 2006 it was the first time a woman: the forty-year-old American entrepreneur of Iranian origin Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of the company Telecom Technologies.
In April 2007 it was Charles Simonyi, an American of Hungarian origin and software developer for Microsoft, who went up to the ISS. He liked it so much that in March 2009 he wanted to repeat the experience. This made him the "space tourist" with more hours of mission in space.
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