Commercial Space Travel: Media & Press: Thirsty Swagman
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Commercial Space Travel
Travel to space has until recently been restricted to nation-states that have the resources to launch manned space vehicles and safely return them to earth.
In 2001 however, the first private "space tourist" Denis Tito visited the International Space Station for 9 days at a cost of $25 to $30 million, and commercial space travel has since become reality.
Several space tour operators are now offering suborbital space flight to budding astronauts - from less than $100,000 anyone can experience several minutes of zero-gravity at 100 kilometres above earth.
Thirsty Swagman is the world's first tour operator to offer commercial space beer travel - where travellers can drink a beer in space.
The idea of space beer originally took off when Japanese brewery Sapporo developed a beer brewed with barley grown at the International Space Station for 6 months in 2006. Since then, Australian brewery 4 Pines Brewing has teamed up with Saber Astronautics to develop Vostok Space beer, developed for consumption in zero gravity.
In April 2012, Thirsty Swagman announced their Beer in Space tour. Priced from $95,000 to $200,000, the ultimate commercial space travel experience - space beer travel is here.
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