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“The earth is blue. It is wonderful and wonderful.”
Famous for the words left by Yuri Gagarin, humanity’s first astronaut, in 1961, looking at Earth from space.
59 years have passed since then, the era of private space travel is approaching.
Today’s chart news, <우주여행>it is.
At 9:27 am today, the private US space exploration company SpaceX launched ‘Resilience’, a spacecraft carrying four astronauts, to the International Space Station.
If the flight continues as scheduled, Resilience will arrive at the International Space Station tomorrow around 1:00 p.m. KST.
Over the next six months, we plan to return to Earth next May after conducting various missions such as research in food physiology, genetic experiments, and no-crop experiments in zero-gravity space.
The launch of SpaceX’s first civilian manned spacecraft marks the beginning of the New Space era.
‘New Space’ refers to the private companies that lead the space industry beyond the era when the government monopolized space development and launch.
Let’s take a look at the representative private companies that are ushering in the new space age.
SpaceX, mentioned above, was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk, a famous CEO of Tesla, and was the first private company to send a manned spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin announced the Blue Moon project aimed at manned lunar exploration in 2024.
Virgin Galactic, a private space exploration company led by British billionaire Lidd Branson, president of the Virgin Group, aims to conduct private space travel.
So, what stage is Korea’s space development project in the New Space era?
In 2018, Korea accounted for just 0.8% of the global space economy market.
For the national space industry to develop alongside the world, voices are growing that it is necessary to establish a medium and long-term plan in preparation for the era of the New Space by building a control tower in all ministries .
Accordingly, the government announced that it will spare no support for the private space industry through the ‘Korea Space Forum 2020’ which is held for two days starting on the 5th.
Will there be an era when it is no longer a dream to travel off earth and travel into space?
Private space companies have drawn up plans to start civilian space tourism next year.
So far it has been graphic news.
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