Axiom International is planning to launch a commercial space station in 2020. The move, which will mark a historic shift in space flight, will allow travelers such as astronauts, researchers, and even tourists to travel to space sooner.
Thirty years after the first ISS modules were sent into the Earth's orbit by NASA, space travel is soon coming for those who can afford it. According to Space, Axiom International's commercial space station will be the first of its kind to function as multiple facilities for research and testing deep-space systems. It will start to host space travelers in 2019 but the training will be conducted in 2017.
Axiom International has revealed that the cost for a space traveler is to the tune of $7.5 million. According to Esciencenews, the company is aiming at sending more people to the ISS, but with a price both in the preparation for space travel and the cost to maintain the stay at the ISS. All those who will be traveling to the ISS commercial module will be trained just like the astronauts of NASA.
"Axiom International" is just waiting for NASA's go signal for the attachment of the first private or commercial module to the ISS. The company is targeting sometime in 2024 to 2028 as the time frame that the module will be detached from the ISS, which has a de-orbit plan in 2028. It can be recalled that NASA's ISS was built at the cost of $100 million.
It was also reported that "Axiom International" will be using technologies that have been tested and tried from lessons of the government - owned ISS life-support systems. Modern software and hardware would be the private modules advantages to continue operating the NASA's legacy. Stay tuned to Telegiz for updates of the space travel launching.