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UAE residents will soon be able to travel to the frontier of space from Dubai – News

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UAE residents will soon be able to travel to the frontier of space from Dubai – News

Photo: File

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A company aiming to make space travel more affordable is hoping to have a launch site in Dubai that will give travelers the chance to see the Burj Khalifa from the edge of space. Space Perspective representatives explained their vision.

“Being able to launch over Palm Island, being able to go up and see the blast wave below and see all these recognizable landmarks, this is one of the most beautiful areas we can launch from,” said Michael Savage, the company’s CEO.

Roman Chiporukha, Co-Founder and CEO of SpaceVIP, one of the partners of this project, later said: Khaleej Times He said he was confident the company could expand into this region. “We have received a lot of interest from this region from Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. We hope to start operations from here when we find the right partner,” he said.

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Affordable and accessible

The company’s goal is to make space travel more affordable and accessible for everyone. “If you want to get airborne with the thrust of a rocket, it takes training and you have 6G on your chest,” Roman said. “We have a pressurized capsule going to the edge of space under a hydrogen balloon. You’re moving at 12 miles per hour as you go to the edge of space. And anyone who can get on an average commercial airplane can go to the moon in a spaceship.”

Priced at around 460,000 dirhams, the company offers a six-hour ride. “It takes two hours to go up,” Michael explained. “The traveler spends two hours at the edge of space in a capsule with luxury seating, where they can enjoy a meal while looking out the largest windows ever flown into space. There’s a toilet just in case. We call this a scenic balloon. Then you slowly descend under the balloon.”

According to the company’s website, the Space Lounge can accommodate eight passengers and a captain at a time. Michael also talked about how Roman worked to bring on a Michelin-starred chef. “It helped us launch the first Michelin-starred meal into space,” he said.

Interest

Roman said the company has seen great interest in partnerships as well as tickets. “We have sold 1,800 tickets so far and we have 225 million tickets in reserve,” he said. “And some of these are average middle-class families. So it’s not just millionaires and billionaires who buy these tickets. “People save money and get the experience they want.”

Some people take it out of their savings accounts, he added. “A lot of baby boomers who got that nest egg looked at their kids and said, you’re not going to inherit $500,000 because my mom and I are going to space. “They bought seats as a couple because they watched all these rockets and Discovery and all of this take off in the ’80s and ’90s.”

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