To be able to do space tourism it will not be necessary to wait long. Virgin Galactic obtained permission from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in May 2012 to conduct an experimental rocket-powered launch and suborbital flight before making its first voyages with crew. Its forecasts include launching the first tourist flight into space in 2013 , and there are already more than 500 customers who have signed up to travel aboard the SpaceShipTwo , a spacecraft for two pilots and six passengers.
For their part, several architects are currently working at the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, at the University of Houston (USA), designing from a Martian greenhouse to the vehicles with which space hikers will travel other worlds with cameras. piggyback. As for "high-flying hotels", the Barcelona company Galactic Suite plans to launch the first space hotel in orbit in 2014 . Its tenants will go around the world every 90 minutes and see 16 sunsets every day. "It will be the birth of Homo spaciens, " says its director, Xavier Claramunt.
