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Space Travel Options -- In Detail

We review each section of the Space Travel Options infographic to provide additional insights

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Each infographic that we publish is designed to be read as a complete visual story on its own, however, for those who want a deeper insights we’ll provide some color commentary on the individual sections.  Let’s dive into our first infographic that provides a comparative of space tourism options that exist today.  

Starting from the highest altitude voyage, this SpaceX flight is an outlier in many ways.  It is the only orbital commercial space voyage that did not dock at the International Space Station (ISS), rather, it continued past the ISS to an altitude of 364 miles and orbited the earth for three days.  We highly recommend watching the truly inspirational Netflix series Countdown Inspiration4 Mission to Space. 

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