On 25th June 2020, Russian Company- S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (also known as RSC Energia) has announced that it will take the first tourist for a spacewalk in 2023. The announcement came after RSC Energia has signed a deal with Space Adventures (space tourism company in the United States). RSC Energia is a part of the Roscosmos (Russia’s space agency).
- As per the deal, two tourists will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in the year 2023 under the joint agreement of both the companies.
- From the end of RSC Energia, one of the two tourists will be able to do a spacewalk together with a cosmonaut from Roscosmos.
- Between 2001 to 2009, Space Adventures along with the Russian Space Agency has taken eight tourists to the ISS.
- In 2001, Dennis Tito (a businessman from the United States) became the World’s First Private Space Explorer (first paying space tourist in the world).
- Since 2009, no other space tourist program has been conducted in the world.
- None of the space tourists to date have done a spacewalk.
Background
- The announcement came a month after SpaceX (the United States-based space transportation services and aerospace manufacturer company) broke the monopoly of the Russian space agency.
- Until 30th May 2020, only Russian Space Agency Roscosmos had the technology to successfully able to carry Humans to space.
- All Human Space Flight missions until 30th May 2020 were conducted with the help of Russian crew spacecraft Soyuz.
- On 30th May 2020, Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX successfully carried two astronauts of NASA to the ISS.
- SpaceX in February 2020 has also signed an agreement with Space Adventures.
- Under the agreement, both the companies have planned to carry a space tourism trip next year.
- The number of space tourists for the trip will be 3.
- Spacewalk for the tourists under this trip is not a part of the agreement yet.
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