Can i go to outer space

Jared Isaacman, a year-old billionaire high-school dropout who promoted the flight as a massive fundraising effort for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, paid for it all. Issacman, a pilot who is qualified to fly commercial and military jets, reached a deal with SpaceX in late for the mission. This initiative to partner public and private resources for American space exploration has been years in the making.

NASA has been working with SpaceX and Boeing on their systems for the last 10 years, transferring their knowledge from more than 60 years of human spaceflight and innovation in low Earth orbit.

I think in the next 60 years, that number is going to go up dramatically, and the vast majority of them are going to be private citizens," McAlister says. The goal for NASA is to eventually retire the International Space Station and allow companies to build their own space stations with the latest technological designs that require less maintenance.

In the future, astronauts could just rent seats on space shuttles and stay at rooms in space stations, similar to how business travelers buy plane tickets from airlines and sleep in hotels. And then entrepreneurs entered the market. Forces of competition brought prices down to the point where today, most people, not everybody, but most people can afford a flight from New York to California," says McAlister.

Getting onto a spaceship definitely wouldn't be as simple as a check-in process at the airport. The participants on Inspiration4 had to train for months, understand spacecraft systems and prepare for the physical toll of space. Blue Origin has yet to say exactly when flights might begin or how much they would cost.

The company has a sign-up form for those interested in reserving a seat. Of all companies offering, or expecting to offer, flights into space, SpaceX may have the most compelling story. Earlier this year, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company had accepted payment from two customers for a weeklong flight around the moon and back to Earth, largely retracing the path taken by Apollo 8 astronauts in Musk has said that the mission could come as soon as SpaceX has also announced the even more ambitious goal of sending colonists to Mars starting in Tucson, Arizona-based World View Enterprises has announced plans to send passengers to an altitude of , feet in a luxury gondola suspended from a gigantic helium balloon.

Eight customers would spend two hours ascending, two hours in cruise, and another hour or two returning to the ground.

Though lacking the cachet of true spaceflight, the World View flights promise a more refined experience; customers would be able to clink champagne glasses while taking in the view from enormous picture-frame windows and posting their photos to social media using onboard Wi-Fi. World View says it hopes to begin manned testing in but offers no specific dates for the tourist flights. Zero G flights take off weekly from airports across the U.

IE 11 is not supported. It feels kind of like you're standing on your head. But the good news is, on suborbital flights, you might be able to avoid the worst of it. On a suborbital flight, you won't have a ton of time in space, so you won't really have to worry about acclimating to zero-G.

But some private spaceflight companies are looking to send their clients up into orbit for longer stays. If you're going to spend a few days or even a few weeks up in space, you're probably going to bump your head more than once, no matter how much you've trained for the experience.

They push off with full force and they crack their skull or bang their knee. Doing routine tasks like brushing your teeth you can't just spit your toothpaste into a sink , clipping your fingernails you don't want them floating off into your space station , and going to the bathroom have you even thought about how to use a toilet without gravity?

Inevitably, you might have a few mishaps early on in your trip. Other messes are a different story. The toilet is not particularly simple and you have to be careful," says Dr.

In case you were wondering, space toilets use airflow to guide things where they're supposed to go. If you want to zip around space with a jetpack like George Clooney in "Gravity," sorry, but chances are that's not going to happen any time soon.

Most private astronauts will be safely tucked inside their craft for the duration of their flight. But it's not an impossibility — private spaceflight company Space Adventures has partnered with Russian space organization Roscosmos to send two customers into space in , and one of them will partake in a spacewalk.

Unlike suborbital flights, orbital flights with a spacewalk will require extensive training, given that spacewalks are inherently more dangerous than simply riding up to space in the relative safety of a spacecraft. It's possible that a crewmate may be able to head out to rescue you, but then you're endangering their life as well. While the only way up to space is via a rocket, there are two ways to come back down: via a winged vehicle, like the space shuttle or Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, or via a capsule, like Apollo, Soyuz, and Blue Origin's New Shepard.

The experiences are quite different, as winged vehicles land like an airplane on a runway, whereas capsules descend beneath parachutes onto land or water.

While both experience a range of G-forces during reentry, capsules have a bit of a rougher ride, particularly at the very end. There are shock-absorbing mechanisms, of course, that make it not too big a deal. But on Soyuz, you smack the ground pretty darn hard. It was kind of surprising! Sure, it's going to cost a small fortune to go into space as a tourist — for now, that's somewhere in the ballpark of several hundred thousand dollars for a suborbital flight, and millions of dollars for longer duration orbital stays.

But ask any astronaut, and they're sure to tell you it'll be worth the investment. Even in 3D-IMAX, there's no way to capture the way it's going to make you feel, the connectedness you feel to planet Earth, and the awe you have when you look out into the universe.