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Space Tourism - Not Everyone Can Fly (Yet)

Prof Wendy Whitman Cobb, Associate Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

18-Jun-21 08:30

Space Tourism - Not Everyone Can Fly (Yet)

A new space race is underway, with companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic all striving to make space tourism a reality. But right now, access to space appears limited to billionaires- so when can space tourism become a viable industry? We speak to Prof Wendy Whitman Cobb, Associate Professor of Strategy and Security Studies from Air University's School of Advanced Air and Space Studies to find out when space travel may become accessible to everyman.

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Produced by: Sim Wie Boon

Presented by: Lyn Mak, Noelle Lim, Roshan Kanesan


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Tags:  space,  space travel,  Elon Musk,  tourism,  spaceX,  Virgin Galactic,  Blue Origin, 


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