Space predictions for 2020: SpaceX and Virgin Galactic will revolutionise space tourism – Express.co.uk
AFFORDABLE spaceflight technology will revolutionise the space tourism industry in 2020, according to a billionaire who believes SpaceX and Virgin Galactic will lead the charge.
Space will dominate in 2020 with multiple private investors and national space agencies reaching out for the stars. US agency NASA will launch next year its Mars 2020 rover in a bid to find evidence of alien life on Mars.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) will also launch its life-hunting rover next year – the ExoMars mission.
And California-based rocket manufacturer SpaceX has announced a record-breaking launch manifesto for 2020.
But Russian billionaire and rocket engineer Dr Igor Ashurbeyli believes real movements will come in the space tourism industry.
Companies like ’s SpaceX and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic are already pursuing the goal of putting humans on affordable trips off-planet.
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SpaceX has spent the last five years developing reusable rocket technology, significantly reducing in the process the cost of launching payloads into orbit.
And Virgin Galactic has focused its efforts on building suborbital spaceplanes that will take tourists on once-in-a-lifetime trips into space.
Dr Ashurbeyli said: “The first major breakthrough that we shall see is the normalisation of space tourism.
“Virgin Galactic are providing the most viable option for exploring space but only if you can afford the small fortune.
“We expect that with reusable rocket technology, throughout the decade the prices of space exploration will indeed decrease, but it’ll take an ambitious project like Asgardia to realise how space travel can be democratised for people of all backgrounds.”
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Dr Ashurbeyli is the founder and head of the space nation Asgardia – a space-based micro-nation with territorial claims off-planet.
The first major breakthrough that we shall see is the normalisation of space tourism.
Founded on October 12, 2016, following a satellite launch, Asgardia believes the future of humanity rests on our ability to live outside of Earth.
Towards this goal, the space nation aims to conceive the first child in space in the next 22 years.
Dr Ashurbeyli has also suggested space risks becoming a new theatre of conflict in the foreseeable future.
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The Russian billionaire said: “With increasing aggression from world powers in space, there also needs to be a framework for space law.
“We are currently working with Professor Ram Jakhu whose MILAMOS project is the most sensible approach to have been created for proposing space law frameworks.
“If space is to become a democratised entity, we must all work together as humans to ensure that earthly aggression is not transferred to un-earthly environments.”
Dr Ashurbeyli also predicts the next decade will see more and more people make the move into space.
The Chairman of Parliament for Asgardia has previously claimed as many as 20,000 people will make the move in just 25 years.
Dr Ashurbeyli said: “Thirdly, we shall start to see a greater effort to integrate communities that have been established on Earth into frameworks that will one day be existent in space.
“Currently Asgardia have just under 1.5 million Asgardian citizens.
“We hope that as space exploration becomes a reality in the 2020s, more people will be inspired to realise their dreams and explore space with Asgardia.
“There is no reason why by the end of the 2020s, Asgardia cannot maintain its status as the world’s largest space community and have millions more citizens.”
