Poll: 75% of Russians are aware of the development of space tourism
75% of Russians have information about space tourism, 24% have not heard about it, another 50% expressed the opinion that there is no space tourism in Russia, such survey data are cited by VTsIOM.
30% of the respondents would like to go into space and visit the International Space Station, 34% would like to fly on jet aircraft to the stratosphere, 33% would like to undergo space training on simulators in Star City, 43% would like to go on a tour to the Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes …
In addition, among the main events related to the space industry, respondents named the launch of rockets by Elon Musk's SpaceX (11%), launches / construction of new rockets (6%), Martian programs (5%), a hole in the ISS skin and the development of Chinese space programs (4% each, respectively).
The most important areas for the development of the space industry in the country are Russia's participation in the International Space Station project and the creation of new space stations, 30% of survey participants reported this.
Earlier it became known that the CEO of the American company Amazon Jeff Bezos in July together with his brother Mark Bezos on the New Shepard spacecraft of his company Blue Origin will go into space.
