Orbite’s director of astronaut training, Brienna Rommes, enjoys a zero-G airplane flight. (Orbite Photo)
Wanna take a ride to space? There’s a smorgasbord of spaceflight shaping up for paying customers, ranging from the suborbital tours planned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to the orbital trips offered by SpaceX. What will those rides be like, and how will they differ from each other?
Starting in August, a Seattle-based startup called Orbite (pronounced “Or-beet,” French-style) will offer three-day orientation sessions to let customers sample the astronaut experience and find out for themselves.
“We’ll give them a ‘try before you buy’ experience, and educate them on the different offerings that are out there,” Orbite co-founder and CEO Jason Andrews, a veteran of Seattle’s Spaceflight Industries, told GeekWire.
As private companies like Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX prepare to ferry private customers to the stars, a whole new market is opening up to train affluent would-be travelers for their future missions. Case in point: space training company Orbite, whose goal is to combine aeronautics and five-star hospitality in its inaugural astronaut training program. “We're going to have hundreds, if not thousands of people this decade of the 2020s, who will go to space, but you just don't get off the couch and strap into a rocket […] you actually have to get mentally prepared, physically prepared, and also spiritually prepared for this out of out of this world journey,” co-founder Jason Andrews told TechCrunch.
As private companies like Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX prepare to ferry private customers to the stars, a whole new market is opening up to train affluent would-be travelers for their future missions. Case in point: space training company Orbite, whose goal is to combine aeronautics and five-star hospitality in its inaugural […]
(Photo : Pixabay/WikiImages) Space astronauts Orbite training program
Private companies like Blue Origin, Axiom Space, Virgin Galactic, and SpaceX are now preparing to board customers to space. This is a whole new market that is becoming popular as it trains would-be space travelers for their future trip to the stars.
A new company, Orbite, is a space training company that is set to combine aeronautics and five-star experience in its astronaut training program.
Orbite Space Training Program
Jason Andrews, the co-founder of Orbite, told TechCrunch that they are going to have hundreds and thousands of people who will go to space in the next couple of years.