The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
摘要
过去五年，美国私人太空旅游曾一度兴起：蓝色起源和维珍银河开始将普通客户送入亚轨道，SpaceX的龙飞船也曾送私人公民进入轨道。但如今局面已变：蓝色起源的新谢泼德号自今年1月后停飞，团队转向其他项目；SpaceX的龙飞船最后一次自由飞行任务于2025年4月完成，之后将退役；维珍银河的团结号也在2024年6月完成最后一次亚轨道飞行。美国已连续10个月没有太空旅游
The private space tourism era looked so very promising five years ago. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic had begun flying customers—real people with zero space experience—on suborbital missions. And at about the same time, private citizens were going to orbit for days at a time aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon.
But that was then. Consider the state of play today:
- It has been 10 months since Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft flew its last mission in January. The program was subsequently "paused," but let's be real. Blue Origin has moved on. New Shepard's engineering teams are now supporting the New Glenn rocket and Blue Moon lander programs.
- SpaceX flew its final free-flyer mission on Dragon, Fram2, in April 2025. A handful of non-NASA missions bound for space stations remain on the spacecraft's manifest, but all are likely to carry at least one government astronaut. Then Dragon will be retired. There is no credible timeline for SpaceX's Starship to fly humans into space from Earth.
- As for Virgin Galactic, the company flew its final suborbital mission on the VSS Unity spacecraft more than two years ago, in June 2024.
So we are now 10 months, and counting, without a space tourism mission in the United States.
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The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
（2026-10-28T19:20:36）
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Eric Berger
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