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Space tourism – 20 years in the making – is finally ready for launch | Opinion Posted Apr 30, 2021 Space tourism has been slow to get off the ground. (Nadia Bormotova/iStock via Getty Images Plus) Facebook Share For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito achieved that lifelong goal – but he wasn’t a typical astronaut. Tito, a wealthy businessman, paid US$20 million for a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to be the first tourist t...

Space Tourism - 20 Years in the Making - Is Finally Ready for Launch Randy Thomp, of Minnesota, takes a cell phone photo of SpaceXs SN15 Starship prototype, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Boca Chica, Texas. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP) 29 Apr 2021 The Conversation | By Wendy Whitman Cobb Wendy Whitman Cobb is a Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, at the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space ...

With enough money, you too can get a taste of the truly high life. Here's a look at how space tourism has evolved over the past two decades.

Space Tourism – 20 Years in the Making – Is Finally Ready for Launch yogysic/iStock.com email April 29, 2021 09:00 AM ET With companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin hoping to build a future for humanity in space, space tourism is a way to demonstrate both the safety and reliability of space travel to the general public. For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito achieved that lifelong goal – but he w...

Its 20 years in the making. Apr 28th, 2021 Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies The VSS Unity spacecraft is one of the ships that Virgin Galactic plans to use for space tours. AP Photo/Matt Hartman For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito achieved that lifelong goal – but he wasn’t a typical astronaut. Tito, a wealthy businessman, paid US$20 million for a seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to be...

Jeff Bezos announced last week that he is stepping down as Amazons CEO. He built Amazon from scratch. He also built Blue Origin – a pathbreaking spacecraft company – on the side. In the process, Bezos became the richest person of all time. How did he do it? The key to Bezos’s success is an unyielding commitment to three principles. First among them: think long term. Bezos focuses on big, long-term goals and ignores the short-term trivialities that distract others. As Bezos put it i...

The math behind Bezos eight hours of sleep Bezos is very calculative about why he believes eight hours of sleep is the key to boosting productivity and making high-quality decisions. He offered a very convincing example: "So lets go crazy and say I slept four hours a day. Id get four so-called productive hours back. So before I had, say, 12 hours of productive time during any waking day, now all of a sudden I have 12 plus four — I have 16 productive hours." Thats 33% more time to make decisio...