Will we live on the Moon by 2030?

The fight for space travel.

Daria Malinova
5 min readJul 10, 2023
Photo by NASA on Unsplash

Above the stark New Mexico desert, a white and silver space plane rocketed toward the edge of Earth’s atmosphere. A few minutes later, a crafted ship with two pilots and four passengers floated more than 53 miles (86km) above our planet’s surface. They saw Earth’s curvature for some minutes. This story will be a daily one in the next decade. We might be asking why all the buzz flying to space. Or how soon will space tourism become widely available? To spark a little controversy, most nations consider the Kármán Line at 100 kilometers to be the official start of space, the United States uses 50 miles (80 kilometers) as the pinpoint. Therefore, some of the world’s billionaires started a fight over who will be the first to send tourism ships there to see the Earth for several minutes. There’s no official time when civilians will be able to partake in these missions. But after Richard Branson's and Jeff Bezos's successful missions, this entire space adventure might be launched soon. Due to the complexity of this travel itinerary, the costs of tickets are expected to be more than $300.000 each more or less. If everything goes according to plan, space tourism can become a big reality in 2025. It signals an era of increased activity in the space atmosphere. But behind the high-profile commercial launches, a question still arises. Are we going to…

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Daria Malinova
Daria Malinova

Written by Daria Malinova

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