Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of going to space. Now you can be one of the earliest space pioneers. If you have what it takes, are medically qualified, can afford the tab and have the desire, then now is your opportunity to go for it and possible find your place in space history.
Ok, you like to think about space, you love sci-fi flicks and part of your thoughts about possibly signing up are, should I wait so I can make sure its safe, make sure I get some feedback from some people who did it and perhaps the price will even come down? Or, do you want to be able to tell all your friends, your family, co-workers and peers that you are going on a rocketship into space? Just think you have registered and now await your chance to go and become one of the earliest space pioneers to experience weightlessness, G-forces and a be a part of commercial spaceflight history?
If you have decided that at some future time you do want to venture into space, as soon as you see that others have gone successfully before you, register as when its 'cool' and that's great.
However, the real chance is now, the opportunity for YOU to be be amongst the earliest space adventurers to take the initiative and get their seat number, so all your desires and thoughts each day about going can be expressed to everyone you meet.
It's to YOU I am writing- the spirit of adventure to go where so few have gone before taking you to 'the edge of space' and to be a real part of space flight history.
If you went and the vehile encountered a major problem? We all know there's a chance it can happen? Do you remember Christa McAuliffe? She was the first. Please, I am not suggesting that to be forever remembered you need to be in the next ill-fated catastrophic event, but almost everyone would certainly have that thought at some point, once they got serious about signing up. Actually it's less than 2%, based on NASA's history so your odds are way in your favor. Of course we all have some fears but that's a part of what makes this experience so exciting and adventurous.
But to see the curve of the Earth, to experience a pinnacle life event and have feelings that only being there can describe, as the astronauts felt before us... a feeling that can only be described and felt by being there and going for iy... to find YOUR name, like Per Wimmer, who will be first to fly on the XCOR Lynx and also amongst the earliest pioneers to fly on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.
*For Example:
CIVILIAN SPACE PIONEERS HALL OF FAME
Participant-----Country----Date----Flight Veh/Queue #
Per Wimmer---Denmark--2012?--SpaceShipTwo #?
Per Wimmer---Denmark--2012?--Lynx #1
R Branson------England---2012?--SpaceShipTwo #1
J Greason-------USA-------2012?--Lynx #?
A Ansari---------Iran--------201 ?---Armadillo Aerospace #?
Elon Musk------USA-------201 ?---Falcon #?
* It is NOTED here that the Civilian Space Pioneers Hall Of Fame list project illustrated above is under consideration and possible development with The National Space Society. If you are an early registered participant make sure that you inform the proper Space Tourism Society soon after your flight experience so you will receive proper recognition. The above list may or may not actually take place, however it seems plausible it will. The first flights should begin in early 2012 and just to be on it would be the event that will last a lifetime. It will put you in a very special designation in the annals of civilian space pioneer history.
Now that you're possibly very close in making that big decision to go for it....what next? Risk, money? Is it Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo or XCOR's Lynx or maybe Space Adventures new vehicle from Armadillo Aerospace. Other possibilities you wish to consider going into space with? Who should you trust? Who will be first? Which experience do you want most? Whom do you believe? Why not try them all? Try them both like Per Wimmer who has registered for Lynx and SpaceShipTwo.
Only time can reveal the reality that will answer these questions. It's now up to you to discover what you want, and with whom you are willing to make your selection. If you choose to go I hope I will find your name on the list of the earliest space pioneers that decided to experience the thrill of being an eary space flight participant and found themselves a part of space history.
Mitchell J Schultz is a Space Tourism Specialist operating a website at http://www.XtraordinaryAdventures.com . He has many years of travel experience and is representing XCOR's new Lynx space vehicle, View their exciting video, get more information about civilian space history and sign up today for your FREE newsletter 'Space Cruise News' about the space tourism industry, go now to: http://www.XtraordinaryAdventures.com/newsletter.
