🚀Inside the space camp where billionaires get a taste of zero gravity...
A new $30,000 'astronaut orientation' weekend offers the elite a luxurious preview — without going into space.
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A new $30,000 'astronaut orientation' weekend offers the elite a luxurious preview — without going into space.
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telegraph.co.uk/luxury/technol…
👨🚀"After performing press-ups on Mars and making giant leaps across the moon, we step up into the weightlessness of space.
"There I float for a moment, astounded and uncertain, before crashing back to Earth."
✍️Ruaridh Nicoll
"There I float for a moment, astounded and uncertain, before crashing back to Earth."
✍️Ruaridh Nicoll
'Earth' in this case is the padded floor of a modified Airbus A310, or what the astronauts of the atomic age called a 'vomit comet'
"When the invitation to take part in three days of astronaut training at one of France’s finest hotels arrived at my home in Havana, I was skeptical."
✍️It sounded as preposterous as that sentence, Ruaridh writes
✍️It sounded as preposterous as that sentence, Ruaridh writes
"Having grown up on The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book about the early pioneers of space, I’ve felt a little cynical as contemporary billionaires buy their way into the heavens.
"But Nicolas Guame, a French hotelier and entrepreneur tells me I'm trying to stop the tide"
"But Nicolas Guame, a French hotelier and entrepreneur tells me I'm trying to stop the tide"
🗣️"This is the year space tourism takes off," he says.
"And you are going to be a pioneer"
"And you are going to be a pioneer"
💰There are believed to be a million people rich enough and interested enough to take a trip to space.
According to wealth managers Canaccord Genuity, suborbital tourism alone is expected to be worth $8bn by 2030
According to wealth managers Canaccord Genuity, suborbital tourism alone is expected to be worth $8bn by 2030
🧠These tourists, Guame believes, need "mental, physical and spiritual" preparation
La Co(o)rniche - the (o) is an irritating Starck conceit - is set high among tall pines, Ruaridh writes
🍾"True luxury isn’t just champagne and oysters, it’s access to amazing people and experiences. Orbite, it’s fair to say, provides them all"
🍾"True luxury isn’t just champagne and oysters, it’s access to amazing people and experiences. Orbite, it’s fair to say, provides them all"
🚀Ruaridh was flown in an acrobatic plane by a stunt pilot to simulate the feeling of a rocket launch.
✍️"We start with a ten minute up-and-down on Bezos’ Blue Origin as it rises 66 miles above the dreary brown scrub of west Texas"
✍️"We start with a ten minute up-and-down on Bezos’ Blue Origin as it rises 66 miles above the dreary brown scrub of west Texas"
🔎Read the full article to find out how Ruaridh Nicoll got on at the $30,000 'astronaut orientation' weekend here 👇
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