The past, the present and the future of

Jonathan Weltman
CEO – TSG Tourism Services Group
8 October 2010 – SASA Conference
 30 April 2001 Space became a Tourism
Destination
 ST1 - Dennis Tito aboard a Soyuz capsule
launched by Space Adventures
 $20 million price tag
 7 day return trip
 Stayed at the ungraded International Space
Station (no swimming pool or room service)
 Apparently the service was poor (Tito was
considered a Cosmonaut and not an
Astronaut thus the yanks on ISS were less
than friendly)
 All inclusive –
bed, breakfast, lunch, dinner, oxygen &
Spacesuit (Tips not included )
 Between 2001 and 2007, 4 more
Space Tourists – all at a $20
million price tag
 ST2 Mark Shuttleworth
 ST3 Greg Olson
 ST4 Anousheh Ansari
 ST5 Charles Simonyi

 Some argue that John Glenn

was ST1 aboard Discovery in
1998
 In 1997, NASA published a report
concluding that selling trips to
space to private citizens could be
worth billions of dollars.
 A Japanese report supports these
findings, and projects that space
tourism could be a $10 billion per
year industry within the two
decades.
 The only obstacles to opening up
space to tourists are the space
agencies, who are concerned with
safety and the development of a
reliable, reusable launch vehicle.
 Key Sectors for Space
Tourism
 Transportation
(Rockets, Capsules and
Planes)
 Accommodation (Hotels and Spaceport America
Habitats)
 Entertainment
▪ Space Walks
▪ Sight Seeing
▪ Sports?
 Spaceports Space Diving
 Training
▪ Zero G
 Several Commercial
Companies have been /
still are involved in
preparation for a
burgeoning Space
Tourism market: Dream Chaser

 Armadillo Aerospace
Suborbital Spacecraft
 Space Dev
Dream Chaser – Jim Benson designer passed away

 Blue Origin
New Shepard - Manned Rocket
Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com)

New Shepard
 Constellation Services
International
Lunar Express

 EADS Astrium
Space Plane

 Boeing Astrium
CST-100 Capsule

 Planet Space
Canadian Arrow Rocket

 Bigelow
Sundancer Space Hotel

 Space Island
Space Hotel Designs

Sundancer Hotel
 RocketPlane XP
Sub-Orbital flights offered at $250,000

 Virgin/Scaled Composites
Virgin Galactic - $200,000

 Space Adventures
Only company that has fulfilled so far – current cost
of the same package is now $30 - $40 million

 Space Fleet
Space Vehicles

 SpaceX
Falcon & Dragon Capsule – Elon Musk (Paypal)

 XCOR
Space Planes

 Spaceports
RocketPlane
▪ America, Sweden, Dubai....RSA?
 The Average cost of a space package was $20 million (Now $30-$40
million for the same trip)
 Virgin, RocketPlane and others are selling Space trips from $200,000
(340 + booked on Virgin)
▪ Cost of going to space down 99% since 2009
 Virgin estimates that after 1,000 trips cost will come down to $20,000 –
another 90% reduction
 Bigelow is testing inflatable structures in Space right now
 Boeing has announced entry by 2015
 Russians have announced a Space Hotel by 2016 (ISS without the
science equipment)
 SpacePort America runway will be commissioned on 22 October 2010
 Point to Point opportunities will abound (Xmas at the Ice Hotel, new
years in Cape Town – travel time 2hrs)
“Ten to Fifteen years from now going on
holiday to Space will be as common
place as going on holiday to Europe!”