On July 20, 2021, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, took off into space on board the New Shepard. Just days
earlier, Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Group, achieved the milestone that is paving the way for space tourism, although only for multimillionaires. Let's travel into the past to leam about history's earliest examples of space tourism, and then look to the future to see what might be coming up for this booming industry.
Endless people, not just writers and scientists, have imagined themselves travelling into space at some time or another. And then, at last, it happened, thanks to humankind's determination to explore. Up until now, only astronauts have been able to travel to outer space and see the Earth from a new place. But all that may change within the next few years with the growing popularity of space tourism, which has achieved a string of milestones in 2021.
Conquest of space
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