Explore tourism on Thien Cung space station for the super rich

03/23/2022 14:15 GMT+7

China launched the Tiangong space station in 2021, the country’s first long-term space station project. In the next decade or so, China will provide flights to bring tourists to visit the Tiangong.

Thien Cung Station is located about 340-450 km . from Earth

Tiangong is a Chinese space station built in low Earth orbit, about 340 to 450 km above the surface. Once completed, the Thien Cung space station will have a mass of 80 to 100 tons, equal to 1/5 of the ISS international space station. This is currently the experimental research site of Chinese astronauts.

However, in the future, instead of only astronauts and well-trained people being allowed to go to Thien Cung station, as long as you have enough money to pay and have good health, you can make the trip. visit this space station.

Yang Liwei, China’s first astronaut in 2003 shared that tourists visiting the Tiangong are not a matter of technology, but rather of serving their individual needs to explore.

Visitors will travel to the space station in a tourist-friendly reusable craft that can accommodate about seven people, which is currently under research and development.

The first part of the Thien Cung space station was launched in April 2021. Three months later, the first crew went up to the station to set up and prepare for the next module.

Referred to as the ‘Palace in the Sky’, Thien Cung station has three modules, the Tianhe core module and two laboratories scheduled to launch in 2022. It is unclear whether tourists will stay in the main Thien Ha module. Ha and three crew members will have a new module serving tourists.

Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China’s human spaceflight program, said it will use the Shenzhou spacecraft to ferry paying passengers to the Tiangong station in the future.

China has ramped up its space program in recent years. It is the third country to land a rover on the surface of Mars, and the first to place a rover on the far side of the Moon.

Meanwhile, according to statistics, the number of new billionaires in China is growing at a dizzying rate, much faster than any other country in the world.

According to Hurun’s 2022 Global Billionaires List, China and the US contribute to 55% of the world’s billionaires. But the top 3 cities topping the list of places with the most billionaires living in the world are all located in China, including Beijing at the top with 144 billionaires, Shanghai with 121 billionaires and Shenzhen with the new top. 113 billionaires.

Space tourism is a new experience for billionaires who want to find a different resting place, try once in their life to fly out to Earth.

Before that, a number of billionaires in the world have made trips to explore space with a cost of tens of millions of dollars, including billionaires Charles Simonyi, Jeff Bezos, Yusaku Maezawa, Richard Branson…

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