21. July it is 50 years, with Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon. More coming soon – even tourists could take him. The comfort is low, the experience, but truly exorbitant.
It goes to the Baron of Munchausen, the trip to the moon is quite simple: always the Beanstalk up to the edge of the sickle. As he describes it, at least in his lies stories from the 18th century. Century.
In fact, a stay on the moon, however, is a highly exclusive affair: Only twelve people have walked on the moon. All were astronauts of the U.S. Apollo program between 1969 and 1972.
And so, the bad news is that right at the beginning: when the next people step onto the moon, still stands in the stars.
Breakfast with a view: From the view of the earth from space and riders love even years later
The arrival: Currently, there’s no provider
Russia has announced that it is to be transported from 2021, space tourists – however, only ins All. China plans a base on the moon when is still uncertain. At the most concrete plans of the USA, there are still: you want to send in 2024, the first astronauts to the moon. Of tourists the speech, however, is not yet.
And then there are the private providers, such as “Blue Origin” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos “Virgin Galactic” of the British entrepreneur Richard Branson, or “SpaceX” by Tesla-founder, Elon Musk.
In the latter case, a traveller, even a moon-trip to the Japanese Milliiardär Yusaku Maezawa busy. He wants to expected to fly in 2023, and six to eight artists take.
Two hook the thing: A moon landing is not planned, just a round-about 200 miles away. And in the past start dates private space travel companies have been shifted again and again, to the technical hurdles and challenges are.
The food: freeze-dried and in bags
For Breakfast, nuts and fruit salad, for lunch, noodles with sausages, later, a couple of granola bars and in the evening, maybe even dried strips of beef and cheese: Meanwhile, the menus of astronauts in space law are numerous. On an exquisite menu, vacationers should not hope yet – even if, for example, NASA is working together with star chefs.
Most of the food is heated to ultra-high, freeze-dried and preserved. Fresh fruit, not only is there very rarely, and Chips, for example, because the crumbs could put in a valve or Filter. On one thing All travelers must not renounce but: Since 2015, there is a Space espresso machine with the name “”ISSpresso”
Accommodation: Bright, noisy, dusty
With a lunar Five-star holiday none should be expected. “We don’t fly to the moon, because it is so beautiful to live,” says the German Astronaut Alexander Gerst. “Is grey, dusty, there’s a vacuum, glare from the sun is light, minus 150 degrees at night, plus 150 degrees during the day.”
So far only a Vision, as in this design, the future moon base, ESA might look like
Like space, visitors can be accommodated in this hostile environment, the European space Agency ESA is currently working: you want to build in the next few years, a moon-village. Also tourists will be able to go on holiday, announced ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner. It is still only a Vision. For the interior, nothing is yet known. What is the village but also in the moon-probably hard to avoid, is the constant noise ventilation motors and pumps, which ensure the Survival.
The program: sports and attractions
Holidays in space is automatically an Active holiday. Because of the alien’s Stay to commemorate the places where the people poses particular challenges: The heart shrinks. The tear glands don’t work, and Burp will work. And the muscle atrophy. So: sports – and every day. But after all, with a spectacular view of the earth.
As an excursion programme, a Sightseeing Tour with a Luna mobile, to the craters like Peary, the highest mountain of the moon is Mons Huygens, or to the Apollo 11 landing site.
The only work of art on the moon: The Statue “fallen Astronaut” was installed in 1971 during the Apollo 15 Mission
In addition, some of the memorabilia: Each of the Apollo standing in the moon dust-missions has left a memorial plaque and a flag of the United States. In the unmanned space probe “Luna 2” is a Banner of the Soviet Union, and on the far side of the moon, Chinese robots, “Jadehase 2 is still to come”.
As a Highlight of the “fallen Astronaut”, an aluminium sculpture by the Belgian artist Paul van Hoeydonck is true. It is reminiscent of the astronauts, the exploring of outer space died. Or the camera by Eugene Cernan, the commander of the last Apollo Mission, left her in 1972, in the Belief that the next team would pick you up. It is still there, in the moon dust, full to the brim with images, they say.
Costs: horrendous
The trip into space will cost significantly more than a cruise in the Caribbean or a luxury Trip to the Maldives. Therefore, only super are rich lifted, as in 2001 the first space tourist, Dennis Tito. He paid 20 million dollars for the stay aboard the International space station ISS.
Dennis Tito (left), with astronaut: For a short time, one of them
How much does the Japanese have to pay Maezawa, is not known. But if Nasa brings from next year, tourists to the ISS, to pay approximately $ 35,000 (approximately EUR 31,000) per day. And without arrival and departure. For chief financial officer Jeff DeWit to come, according to NASA-again more than $ 50 million. And: Internet costs extra – is compared to a bargain. Per Gigabyte of $ 50 are due.
Alternatives: Where the astronauts work on the earth
Whom lacking the necessary Small change for the journey, but does not have to despair. Even on earth you can be the moon very close to the anniversary of the moon landing.
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Mission on the practice of the moon
Museums around the world to offer special exhibitions, the MoMA in New York until the computer Museum in Paderborn. Here, visitors can feel, for example, in the original faithful replica of the lander as Neil Armstrong and the moon car to virtually drive around.
Or, you can travel to the Nördlinger Ries in Bavaria, Germany. Here an Asteroid hit 15 million years ago and created a huge crater. The astronauts of the space mission Apollo 14 as a training ground for your trip to the moon were using at the time. It is similar in the volcanic landscape of the Canary island of Lanzarote or the rocks on the Norwegian Lofoten Islands. And the journey is similar to easy as a climb up a Beanstalk.