Space Tourism | Jeff Bezos vs Richard Branson vs Elon Musk | Sohail Khan

 Hello, friends!

Are you ready to go to space?

Get ready!

Because next year onwards, Space Tourism will be possible. Like you go to other counties for a vacation from next year, you can go to space on a vacation.  And most importantly, you wouldn't need to undergo any training No need to become an astronaut to make this happen. How will it be possible?Who will make it possible? And how expensive will it be?

Come, let's find out in today's article

Actually, friends, three people are making it possible. First, billionaire Richard Branson. The owner of the Virgin Group. His space tourism company is named Virgin Galactic. Second, Jeff Bezos. The owner of Amazon. His space tourism company is named Blue Origin. And third, Elon Musk. The owner of Tesla. His space company is named SpaceX.

There was a neck-to-neck competition between the first two people to see who would be the first man in the world to go to space in their own rocket. Jeff Bezos had announced that he would do this on 20th July.

After that, Richard Branson, who had originally planned to attempt this a few months later, preponed his plan. Richard Branson attempted this a few days ago, on 11th July. With two pilots and three other crew members, he got into his Unity Spacecraft.

This Spacecraft flew into the sky. And this mission was successful. Leaving Jeff Bezos behind, he became the world's first man to go to space in his own spaceship. It's very interesting to get to know the technical details of this feat. Because he wasn't in a rocket that's launched from a launchpad. Like you normally see in films or like astronauts usually travel, in a rocket. Instead, it was a kind of an airplane.

You can call this airplane a 'Space Plane' because it went into space. What happened was, there is a big plane on the runway, you can call it the 'Mother Aircraft' this smaller Space Plane is attached to it. It's named Unity. Initially, both planes take off from the runway together because they're attached. And when they reach around 50,000 feet altitude, this Unity Space Plane detaches from the Mother Aircraft. And then at supersonic speed, faster than the speed of sound, it goes towards space.And when we talk about going to space here, What it exactly means is that it was 88 km above the earth's surface. If you look out of the window at that height, you'd get to see the curvature of the Earth. This was the view from this flight. And most interestingly,at this height, the passengers of the plane can experience weightlessness.Like the astronauts experience it.

But the unfortunate thing is that this plane doesn't remain at that height for long. This weightlessness can be experienced for only 4 minutes on this Virgin Galactic flight. After that, this plane starts its descend. And lands on the runway like a normal airplane. It takes only an hour to complete this journey. And the part from the detaching of the Space Plane, reaching the top to landing back takes only 15 minutes. So it's not a very long journey. We could see all the photos and videos because Richard Branson live-streamed his test flight on the internet.Another interesting thing,Among the 6 crew members, one was an Indian-born woman.

This incident is historic for many reasons. Even though, Richard Branson wasn't the first private civilian to go to space. Dennis Tito, an American entrepreneur, had paid $20 Million to be able to sit with the astronauts in the rocket to fly to the International Space Station and stay for 8 days. But that was different. Because he was going with the astronauts in an actual rocket. But you can think of this as a private airplane. For this reason, you may think that Richard Branson didn't actually go to space. If you do, then you wouldn't be the first person to think that. Jeff Bezos' space company, Blue Origin, mocked this on Twitter

. They said that there will be an asterisk (*) next to Richard Branson's name because he went up to the height of 88 km only. When globally, most scientists believe that space actually begins at the height of 100 km. This 100 km line is known as the Karman Line. Internationally, the astronauts' organization in European countries they believe that this line at 100 km is the official boundary between our atmosphere and space. But in the USA, the US government and NASA believe that the boundary between the atmosphere and space starts at the height of 80 km. So in the defense of Richard Branson, it can be said that according to US standards, he has gone into space. But not according to the International standards. That's why Jeff Bezos' company mocked him. And now when Jeff Bezos will attempt to go to space on 20th July, he will try to cross this line at 100 km. The difference is very critical here. When Jeff Bezos will attempt it, it will be in the spacecraft built by his company that's like a rocket. So he'll go up in a rocket. His company claims that not only will they reach beyond 100 km but also that the windows on this spacecraft will be huge. So that you can enjoy watching the Earth. But the windows on the Virgin Galactic's spaceplane were of the size of an airplane's window and so quite small.

Second, Blue Origin claims that their spacecraft will have an escape system that was missing in the Virgin Galactic's spacecraft. Third, they claim that their rocket will not have an environmental impact because they'll use environment-friendly fuel. The exhaust will be only water. But in the case of Virgin Galactic, Nitrous Oxide, which is very harmful, is being released. It is very damaging to the environment.