In the USA during the tests a space shuttle was destroyed that was intended for travels outside our planet for tourist purposes. There were two pilots in the cabin, one of them died, the second was taken to the hospital with severe injuries, and the flying machine itself collapsed in the desert of the State of California.
The engineers who conducted the tests foresaw this outcome, since the fuel was used inappropriately. Representatives of Virgin Galactic, which belonged to the shuttle, say that further developments in the field of space tourism will continue, but despite this, the launch of the first tours into space for earthlings is postponed for many years.
According to experts, suborbital flights into space, which could be produced on shuttles such as the crashed SS2 (Space Ship Two), is much cheaper than the "tour" in the ISS astronaut company (200 thousand USD vs. several million), so the talk about mass space tourism has been going on for a long time, but now the failed tests and the process was seriously stalled
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