Still in the same data, astronaut from Germany, Matthias Maurer, was recorded as the 600th person to reach outer space. He and three NASA astronauts finally made it to the International Space Station, albeit a week later than they originally planned.
It is known that the recording of the number of people who came into space began when astronaut from Russia Yuri Gagarin was designated as the first human to orbit Earth in 1961. After that, less than a month after Yuri Gagarin’s journey, Alan Shepard from the United States followed as the second person to get to space. outer space .
According to NASA records, the number of people who got into space was not only those who actually got to the International Space Station but also those who got to the Earth’s orbit area. From that criteria several space tourists, who recently became a new business, such as actor William Shattner, millionaire Jeff Bezos and others are included in the list of 600 people.
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The Science Times said that recently the number of people going to outer space has skyrocketed. This was triggered by competition in the space tourism business run by Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin aircraft, Jeff Bezos through SpaceX and Sir Richard Branson which relies on Virgin Galactic aircraft.
The number of people going into space is even predicted to explode in 2022. This happens because China will open a new space station called Tiangong. Unlike the International Space Station (ISS), Tiangong will instead be placed in earth orbit so that access to outer space will be closer than going to the ISS.
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