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Orbite offers a five-star ‘space camp’ for would-be space travelers
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2817" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/12/orbite-offers-a-five-star-space-camp-for-would-be-space-travelers/" target="_blank"><strong>Orbite offers a five-star ‘space camp’ for would-be space travelers - Techcrunch</strong></a></p><p></p><p>As private companies like Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX prepare to ferry private customers to the stars, a whole new market is opening up to train affluent would-be travelers for their future missions. Case in point: space training company Orbite, whose goal is to combine aeronautics and five-star hospitality in its inaugural astronaut training program.</p><p></p><p>“We’re going to have hundreds, if not thousands of people this decade of the 2020s, who will go to space, but you just don’t get off the couch and strap into a rocket […] you actually have to get mentally prepared, physically prepared and also spiritually prepared for this out of this world journey,” co-founder Jason Andrews told TechCrunch. “And that’s really our role.”</p><p></p><p><a href="https://orbitespace.com/" target="_blank">Orbite</a> (the French word for “orbit,” pronounced <em>or-beet</em>) was founded by space and hospitality industry veterans Andrews and Nicolas Gaume. Andrews is an aerospace entrepreneur who founded Spaceflight and BlackSky, while Gaume, a software and game development entrepreneur, sits on the board of his family’s resort and hotel business Groupe Gaume. Last year, Gaume’s business Space Cargo Unlimited <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/a-startup-just-launched-red-wine-to-the-international-space-station-to-age-for-12-months/" target="_blank">shipped a dozen bottles of wine</a> to the International Space Station. They were later retrieved. (When asked how the wine tasted, Gaume told TechCrunch, “It’s a unique product.”)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2817, member: 1"] [URL='https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/12/orbite-offers-a-five-star-space-camp-for-would-be-space-travelers/'][B]Orbite offers a five-star ‘space camp’ for would-be space travelers - Techcrunch[/B][/URL] As private companies like Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX prepare to ferry private customers to the stars, a whole new market is opening up to train affluent would-be travelers for their future missions. Case in point: space training company Orbite, whose goal is to combine aeronautics and five-star hospitality in its inaugural astronaut training program. “We’re going to have hundreds, if not thousands of people this decade of the 2020s, who will go to space, but you just don’t get off the couch and strap into a rocket […] you actually have to get mentally prepared, physically prepared and also spiritually prepared for this out of this world journey,” co-founder Jason Andrews told TechCrunch. “And that’s really our role.” [URL='https://orbitespace.com/']Orbite[/URL] (the French word for “orbit,” pronounced [I]or-beet[/I]) was founded by space and hospitality industry veterans Andrews and Nicolas Gaume. Andrews is an aerospace entrepreneur who founded Spaceflight and BlackSky, while Gaume, a software and game development entrepreneur, sits on the board of his family’s resort and hotel business Groupe Gaume. Last year, Gaume’s business Space Cargo Unlimited [URL='https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/04/a-startup-just-launched-red-wine-to-the-international-space-station-to-age-for-12-months/']shipped a dozen bottles of wine[/URL] to the International Space Station. They were later retrieved. (When asked how the wine tasted, Gaume told TechCrunch, “It’s a unique product.”) [/QUOTE]
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