Space Ship Landing tour: a new trend in a space tourism

A successful space ship launch has always been a big event. When a 100-meters tall and slender rocket soars into the open sky, it is a big win of all who was involved in this project: designers, engineers, training staff, medics… Now the rocket launch is no more classified: it is open to public and can officially be watched in Baikonur spaceport. Tourists with their tears on a face, see off the rocket, flying away.

Two days ago we found out that everything is safe and sound and the ship with astronauts and cosmonauts onboard docked to the ISS station. Now this is a victory, you may say! Yet, it is not. An ISS expedition considers successful only when the ship safely landed and crew comes back safe and sound.

The landing of a space ship is a very crucial and careful thing. Preparations begin 40 days before the landing date. The Space Mission Control center along with ground services calculate trajectories of all possible ways of landing – 13 in total, and all of them are located in prairies of Kazakhstan Republic – a former part of the Soviet Union. One day before the landing date trajectories are to be corrected according to the current ISS and Earth location. The crew locks the hatches and get ready for a descend.

During our Space ship landing tour you will witness how the ground services, NASA and ROSCOSMOS employees deploy search and rescue mission, how ground services draw a weakened ISS crew, and will see cosmonauts just like that – sitting in front of you! Our tour is a unique and unforgettable adventure and one of the popular ways of a space tourism.

The tour will take place right among the borderless steppes of Kazakhstan. When the space ship enters the lower layers of the Stratosphere (6-7 kilometers) the crew contacts the rescue services. They, on a basic of an updated information from the cosmonauts and make final adjustments to the landing trajectory. On a height of several kilometers the tourists will be able to see a canopy, colored in red and white stripes.

Right after the landing rescue teams head right to the landing site while helicopters scout ahead. The rescue team on a “Blue Bird” ATV’s surround the landed ship and help cosmonaut to come out of it. They all look tired and exhausted, but very very happy. They all so missed simple joys: the sun, wind and skies, as well as gravity force and fresh fruits! Not so long ago, on June 3^rd Anton Shkaplerov, a Russian cosmonaut, upon landing was so happy when someone bring him a full plate of sweet cherry!

When the rescue team is sure, that everything is okay, they take the crew and fly to the Jezkazgan town. After some time they moved to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center – there they can rest and undergo a recovery course.

To attend the ISS crew landing – means to experience unforgettable emotions of delight and rapture, because to watch the translation of the rescue operation is one thing, while to be in a very center of events – is completely different thing!