Private Space Flight

Private Space Flight

📗 How to Make a Spaceship

🔗 https://youtu.be/EP0D6tPRHs4

Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic's First Fully Crewed Spaceflight Unity22

🔗 https://youtu.be/ZPrB3WvnZpE

Blue Origin

Blue Origin's New Shepard Mission NS-19

🔗 https://youtu.be/SvXmdgvcjkQ

SpaceX

SpaceX Inspiration 4

🔗 https://youtu.be/3pv01sSq44w Watch Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space on Netflix

🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space?country=~OWID_WRL&yScale=log

Moon Landing

The first private spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon is the Odysseus spacecraft, built by Intuitive Machines in Houston, Texas. It landed near the lunar south pole on February 22, 2024, marking the first private Moon landing and the first U.S. lunar lander since 1972.

Takeaways

There were private (rich) people before who got to go into space... what's different this time is that the launches, the vehicles, the passengers everything is private companies.

• Space is no longer for national space agencies only - you don't have to become a NASA astronaut

• You don't even have to be a millionaire, because the price dropped to a "few" hundred thousands

You can launch your own cubesat ( a small, 10cm X 10cm X 10cm satellite) into space for ... ?