At 11:17 a.m. US time on April 8, the world's richest man, Musk, ushered in another highlight moment in his life, and the rocket Falcon 9 was successfully launched, opening the commercialization process of space travel. True space travel is a long way shorter from humanity. According to the information disclosure, except for one employee of the company, the ticket price for all tourists is 55 million US dollars, which is about 350 million yuan. Both rockets and spacecraft are manufactured by commercial enterprises. It is also the first time in human history that the International Space Station has served private business travel.
In this space trip, Musk's greater ambitions are also exposed. American aerospace company Axiom Space has taken the first steps toward building a commercial space station. Push the journey to space into the era of commercialization and civilianization. Judging from the pictures given by Axiom Space, the commercial space station has an observation platform where people can see the space landscape. Sure enough, it's very commercial and touristic.
In fact, in addition to Axiom Space, several other commercial companies signed about $400 million contracts with NASA last year to build the same commercial space station. Meanwhile, boeing and Blue Origin, among others, will collaborate on the orbital reef space station, which is expected to be operational in 2023. Lockheed Martin intends to work with Nanoraks and Voyager Space to develop another small space station with the goal of entering orbit by 2027.
Clearly, NASA has opened the door to commercialization and civilianization. NASA's international space is also expected to facilitate commercialization and civilianization before it is decommissioned in 2030. On the other side of the earth, the construction of our Tiangong space station has also entered a critical year. A new tech race has begun.
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