70% of Japanese up to the age of 50 are interested in traveling in space - that's why Japan decided
promote the field
The first space tourist, American millionaire Dennis Tito, broke the barrier
The touring possibilities of the ordinary person - that is, the one who is not an astronaut
in his training. And the Japanese also do not want to be left behind in everything related to the industry
Futuristic tourism, which may one day become economic.
The Japan Aeronautics Association, headed by the former president of
The airline, JAL, from Matsue Toshimitsu, will hold a discussion next month,
To examine the applicability of space tourism. The group, which will number about 40 people,
will include representatives of the largest travel companies in Japan, research institutes,
Space product manufacturers and legal experts.
After Tito finished his journey to the International Space Station at the end of April
This year - a trip he went on in the Russian Soyuz spaceship, after paying for it
The pleasure is no less than 20 million dollars - given, in fact, the official signal
To start the race to make space tourism accessible.
Currently, about 10 private companies in the world are competing for the opportunity to send tourists
desecrate. The first to develop a reusable space vehicle will win
with a special prize of 10 million dollars from an American foundation. In Japan, meanwhile,
offers a group of researchers and engineers, known as 'Nippon Rocket
Kyokai' (loosely translated: Japanese Missile Society), to send a group of 45
Tourists for a three-hour tour in space, on top of a usable rocket
Returns and will be called 'Kanko Maru'. The cost of the 'trip' per person - three million
Yen (about 100 thousand shekels).
A survey conducted by the association revealed that 70% of Japanese, aged 50 and under, are interested
travel to space 40% of them said that they would agree to pay six times as much
Their monthly salary for such a trip. According to 'Nippon Rocket Kyoukai', it is estimated
The space tourism market is about 1.2 trillion yen (about NIS 40 billion) a year,
But that is as long as the price of a ticket does not exceed two million yen (about 64
thousand shekels).
The group convened by the Japan Aeronautics Association will base its research on
These findings of the missile association, and among other things, the group intends to check the
The possibility of the tourist space rocket moving in orbit over Japan, as well as to examine
The likelihood of sending it from Japan.
Additional aspects, which the group intends to consider, are control
Traffic in space and compensation in case of an accident. but anyway,
By Yaakov Zelicha, Tokyo (M)
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