Shanghai to New York in just a couple of hours? Not a problem when you fly in a hypersonic space plane.
The $28 million bid money went to Blue Origin's foundation, Club for the Future, which supports space-based charities to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM. Sun and five crewmates will fly on the New Shepard spaceship later this year.
"While space tourism will likely ramp up, it will take considerable time until costs dramatically drop to reach a far broader audience of passengers than the billionaire-set."And that's where China comes into the picture, with its demonstrable knack for identifying and formulating a scaled-up response to new market opportunities, and driving down prices for consumers.
"Hypersonic aircraft may be on the horizon, but we're still at a very early stage. One of the big challenges is that this area requires rare skills. Governments are investing in research and pilot projects to explore what's possible and develop the skills to someday build production hypersonic aircraft," says Accenture's Schmidt.
Dissel points to the main advantage between flying hypersonically vs supersonically by noting that"Concorde was a Mach 2-ish kind of aircraft. But you have to factor in arriving at the airport ahead of time, and the fact that Concorde had to take off, accelerate, climb -- it wasn't moving at Mach 2 the entire flight."
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