Introduction:
Have you ever thought about space tourism? Hundreds of people have, and the responses vary from "Where's the money coming from?" to "Why would I go there?" The New Space Age has finally hit our planet and it has brought with it a raft of ambitious ideas ranging from private missions to asteroid mining.
The word "space tourism," is nothing more than a fancy word for rocket travel. There has been a lot of hype about space tourism since the first trip to space was made in 1961. NASA says that we need 1 million dollars per person to make space accessible to human life, which means there's not going any way of getting that amount. However, we are all ambitious and hopeful.
Is space tourism a waste of precious resources?
Space tourism is a waste of precious resources. The cost of building a large space station or spacecraft is extremely high and it's not worth the money. In addition, there are many other problems such as safety, pollution, and traffic congestion that must be solved before space tourism becomes possible.
The benefits of space tourism are not great enough to justify the huge costs involved in building these facilities. The technology needed to send people into space has been developed over many years and no one knows how long it will take before we can send people into space for short periods of time on commercial flights. If we want to use our resources wisely then we should focus them on solving problems such as global warming rather than wasting them on something like this which has no real benefit to society.
Space tourism is a waste of precious resources. The cost of sending someone into space is so high that the only way to make it economically viable is to charge people for the privilege.
The price of a trip into orbit is about $20 million per person for two weeks, which is more than many people can afford. The cost of getting off the ground once you're in orbit also adds up quickly. On top of this, there are costs associated with replacing parts and maintaining a spacecraft while it's in orbit, but these are not cheap either.
One way to reduce this cost would be to send more people into space at once — but the more people you send, the harder it gets to keep track of them all at once. And even if you could keep track of them all, there's still no guarantee that they'll ever get back home safely or that they'll even want to come back (the pilot who went missing in 2014 was found dead on Mars).
The cost of space tourism is still very much an open question. The first tourists to fly around the moon, for example, were paid about $20 million each. It's hard to imagine that the prices will go down significantly as more people are willing to pay for the privilege of seeing Earth from space.
On the other hand, the cost of space stations and other things we need in orbit is dropping rapidly. And it's not just because we're getting better at building them; it's because governments are committed to reducing their costs by making them more efficient.
It's true that there are concerns about how much space tourism will cost taxpayers and how much it will cost future generations. But those concerns are often exaggerated.
Conclusion:
Of course, space tourism isn't the only source of waste in our world, but it is one that is somewhat unique. Space travel has yet to become a reality for the vast majority of citizens in the world today, and will likely be decades down the road for many individuals. That being said, we believe that companies who take space tourism seriously should try their best to avoid wasting resources in the meantime.