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As this book is being written, Sarah Brightman is preparing for her flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. If all goes well, she will become the eighth private citizen to have flown an orbital flight in 14 years. That’s a pretty small market isn’t it? It also happens to be a rather elite one that is becoming ever more exclusive as ticket prices continue to increase. So, for those hoping to become a space tourist, what are your chances of flying? Well, to begin with, the chances of you flying an orbital trip are a little further over the horizon than flying a suborbital one, so let’s begin with the suborbital industry.
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The International Aeronautical Federation (FAI) is the world governing body for aeronautics and astronautics records, which includes man-carrying spacecraft. Among the FAI’s responsibilities is the verification of record-breaking flights. Some records are claimed even though the achievements fail to meet FAI standards. For example, Yuri Gagarin earned recognition for the first manned spaceflight, despite failing to meet FAI requirements because he didn’t land in his spacecraft (he ejected from it).
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Seedhouse, E. (2014). The Space Tourism Market. In: Tourists in Space. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05038-6_2
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