{"id":5589,"date":"2024-10-24T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/tickets-to-outer-space-go-on-sale-in-china\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:00:38","slug":"tickets-to-outer-space-go-on-sale-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/24\/tickets-to-outer-space-go-on-sale-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickets to outer space go on sale in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets to outer space have gone on sale for two would-be astronauts in China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chinese <strong>space<\/strong> startup Deep Blue Aerospace is planning on taking passengers to space in 2027 and although there are only two tickets on sale on Thursday, more will be available next month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\">    <\/div>\n<p>The rocket will take the travellers on a suborbital flight, meaning they will reach outer space but won\u2019t enter orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The first round of tickets cost 1.5 million yuan (\u00a3162,500) each.<\/p>\n<p>Space tourism is the latest frontier for companies wanting to capitalise on technological advancements that make space travel easier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> and US company Blue Origin are both working on space tourism.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX sent a billionaire and three other private astronauts into orbit in September.<\/p>\n<p>Daredevil billionaire Jared Isaacman, 41, became the <strong>first person to take part in a private spacewalk<\/strong> during that mission, calling the extraordinary view \u201cgorgeous\u201d as he left the spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>To make its space tourism viable, the Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace said it needed to have reusable rockets, and plans to recover a carrier rocket from orbit in the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, SpaceX managed to successfully catch a rocket booster after a launch using giant robotic arms.<\/p>\n<p>The manoeuvre is considered a major breakthrough: previously, similar-sized rocket launch vehicles crashed back down to Earth and were regarded as expendable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets to outer space have gone on sale for two would-be astronauts in China.\u00a0 Chinese&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradetrovex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}