Forget no-thrills holidays – we prefer no-gravity ones. At KAYAK, we’re always looking for innovations in travel and we’re pretty excited about the prospect of space travel becoming a reality soon. It seems Brits are too, with over over half of UK adults saying they’d like to try space travel.
Take a peek into the latest developments in space travel in our new documentary series, Voyager; co-created by the technology channel Motherboard and made possible by KAYAK. In this episode, host Ben Ferguson visits ‘Space Adventures’, a US-based company that has been sending amateur astronauts into space since 2001. This unique travel agency offers suborbital spaceflights, a stay on the International Space Station, and even a circumlunar flight – all for suitably astronomical prices.
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We’ve also just become the first travel search engine in the UK to show info about space flights for the adventurous traveller. XCOR Space Expeditions offers space flights departing from the Mojave Desert, California, and Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island. It takes about 5 minutes to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, providing flight participants an unrivalled view of the Planet and making them lifelong Astronauts, before returning to solid ground. The total flight duration rounds up to an exhilarating hour.
If you’re curious to find out how much your own XCOR trip could cost, go to KAYAK.co.uk, enter ‘Mojave’ or ‘Curaçao’ as the departure location and travel dates in 2017 and onwards.* Be sure to select ‘First’ class as the ticket type – obviously a trip into space in the co-pilot’s seat aboard XCOR’s spacecraft is going to be first class!
* The XCOR space travel dates are in the process of being determined and confirmed. Prices may fluctuate.
