Embark on a cosmic odyssey with us as we uncover the trailblazers who are turning space tourism from a distant dream into a tangible ticket to the stars. Hang on to your space helmets while we explore the universe of Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic alongside pioneers Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson. Imagine strapping in for a suborbital flight, marveling at the curvature of Earth, and even chuckling at our pitch for a reality TV show that could silence all flat earth debates. With an eye on the future, we're not just talking about these astronomical experiences, but also how this exclusive club might one day welcome the average Jane and Joe without breaking the bank.
Back on terra firma, we transition from the vast emptiness of space to the bustling hilarity of our existence with stories that showcase the lighter side of life. From the quirkiest corners of our daily routines, we share laughs, swap tales, and keep the humor flowing. Remember, laughter is the best medicine, and we're here to provide your dose. Share the joy with friends, and be sure to spread the word about our blend of observational comedy that keeps the giggles coming. Keep curious, keep smiling, and most importantly—keep laughing.
Embark on a cosmic odyssey with us as we uncover the trailblazers who are turning space tourism from a distant dream into a tangible ticket to the stars. Hang on to your space helmets while we explore the universe of Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic alongside pioneers Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson. Imagine strapping in for a suborbital flight, marveling at the curvature of Earth, and even chuckling at our pitch for a reality TV show that could silence all flat earth debates. With an eye on the future, we're not just talking about these astronomical experiences, but also how this exclusive club might one day welcome the average Jane and Joe without breaking the bank.
Back on terra firma, we transition from the vast emptiness of space to the bustling hilarity of our existence with stories that showcase the lighter side of life. From the quirkiest corners of our daily routines, we share laughs, swap tales, and keep the humor flowing. Remember, laughter is the best medicine, and we're here to provide your dose. Share the joy with friends, and be sure to spread the word about our blend of observational comedy that keeps the giggles coming. Keep curious, keep smiling, and most importantly—keep laughing.
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look around and think to yourself my God, everything is weird. Well, we do a lot. This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and hilarious podcast. If we observe it, we talk about it. Anything and everything, anything and everything. Let's get weird and let's have some fun. This is the Observation Station and now your host, tommy Heights.
Speaker 2:
Hey, what's going on? Welcome back space travelers and enthusiasts. This is the Observation Station. I'm your host, tommy Heights, ready to take you on another interstellar journey. Today we're talking about something that's not just in the realms of science fiction anymore space tourism. You heard it right vacationing in space. So let's blast off with these big names in the games. First off, we're going to start off with some Jeff Bezos, elon Musk and Richard Branson. These guys aren't just tech moguls, they're trailblazers of the commercial space travel. So Jeff Bezos, everybody knows, is the Amazon tycoon. He launched Blue Origin with the vision of millions of people living and working in space. So the company's new shepherd rocket has already taken civilian crews just past the Carmen line, and that's the official start of space.
Speaker 2:
So imagine floating in zero gravity and seeing earth from above. I mean, it's mind blowing, right. I can just remember when we were younger kids they would have it where we would go, and you know, to these places where their ex like maybe NASA, not astronauts, but they're working there and they would come into the school and they'd tell us oh well, you know, this is how it is out in space. Here's some photos. These are some things that the telescope took photos of Mind you. This was when we were a lot younger. It wasn't like Google now where you can just type in these images and see all kind of 4k of Mars and Jupiter and all that other stuff, easily accessible Back when you're kids and you're like in elementary school. You see the guy come in and oh my.
Speaker 2:
God, is this guy an astronaut? What's going on? So everybody grows up seeing a space is different. I don't know what's going on with these flat earthers. These guys should be, you know. You should say thrown off the earth. You know, I would love to take every flat earthers, take them straight out to space, to one of these tourism things, just film it and make a reality TV show. And when you toss them off the space station, just let them fly out into the ether of space and go. How flat is that earth? So I mean, look, we have a lot of big people that have to have a lot of financial backing to do space travel. This is not something that's cheap, where you can just get on a spirit flight and say, yeah, let me go to Mars. No, it doesn't work like that.
Speaker 2:
So next we have Elon Musk, the man behind SpaceX, tesla, I mean. So you name it. This is the guy that is in the front of everybody's mind when it comes to technological advancements into the world. He's not just thinking about space tourism. He's eyeing Mars colonization. His Starship rocket is designed for deep space missions. So Musk dreams of making humanity a multi-planetary species.
Speaker 2:
Imagine booking a trip to Mars in the future, which has a whole new meaning to long distance travel. I think if we had seen, maybe or I had seen an interview with Elon, he was mentioning that if he was to die, he would rather do it on Mars than on Earth. I feel that if you're getting bored of Earth, when you have 200 and something billions of dollars, you're like well, you know what other planets are there out in the galaxy? A lot of times people have to have it where they get. That next buzz of the big thing. And the space tourism is going to be the big thing because at some point people are gonna be like you know, we see it all on TV as our aliens, what's going on out there, and you know how is it gonna be inhabitable for humans? How long can you stay up there with the oxygen levels, all different kinds of things?
Speaker 2:
When you see somebody like Elon Musk, I feel like if there's somebody to find out how to take care of space tourism in a way that is a consumer friendly thing that we can say, hey, book the ticket to Mars, we're going. It doesn't even have to be first class flying the economy, unless it takes forever to get up there. Eight hour flights are bad enough. On these planes. I could just imagine, you know, I mean, you're spending a couple hundred thousand dollars to be going up to space at this point From there. It's like, okay, well, you see it all in the pictures, but what is it to be living it out in real life? That is two separate things. It's like, okay, you have a bunch of billionaires going at it.
Speaker 2:
Who is the best at doing the space tourism? Is it the guy that's doing Blue Origin? Is it SpaceX? Well, finally, we come here to Richard Branson. Richard Branson a lot of people know as the founder of Virgin. So there's Virgin Airlines, virgin Voyages for Cruises, but the adventurous founder of the Virgin Galactic, his spaceship it's called Space Ship Two is aiming for suborbital space flight. So it's giving passengers a few minutes of weightlessness with ground zero gravity and a breathtaking view of Earth. So, branson, he took himself on a ride to space, proving that his vision is well within reach.
Speaker 2:
I was looking to say, okay, how much are these tickets worth? But 125,000 dollars for 30 seconds of being out in space. If you have that kind of capital, that's nothing but a drop in the bucket, but if you're a normal person, that's gonna be way out of the budget for normal folks to say, hey look, I would like to go to space, here's $130,000. Let's get there, buh-buh-buh, it's not that quick. The advancements are incredible when you think about it. I mean it's over half a century like since humanity first set foot on the moon. So the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was a giant leap for mankind. Now we're looking beyond that with Mars as the next big frontier.
Speaker 2:
So Maybe some people are already like hey, what would it be like to meet aliens? Who knows if there's even aliens out when you're gonna be flying out there. That's not a guaranteed. When you're visiting out there, we don't even really know what the universe has to offer, because there is so much out there that has been undiscovered, just like the ocean. It's like it gives you a headache almost just looking out into the starry sky light and saying, wow, there is so much out there that I have no idea that even exists. We just are knowing of what's going on in front of us. I mean, when you take a look at earth, you think to yourself how small you are in the the big game of life. I mean earth as a, as it is right now, has about seven billion people, how many you know? It doesn't have to be maybe humans, but what other species are on these different planets that we could communicate with? I mean, the mind just can wander forever and just say, wow, look at all the resources, if we get good enough to extract them from different planets, which wouldn't hurt, whatever life is on those other planets not that there's human resources for these interplanetary resource extractions but I say, oh my god, we don't have to extract any more from earth. We can pull it from whatever you know, the planet tata, whatever you want to call it. That would be super cool and say, yeah, I run a resource extraction on this, this planet tata. That'd be so cool. These are the things that people now with technology and artificial intelligence can say okay, so how can I fix this? What can I do here?
Speaker 2:
When we were on the moon, that was a joke for people to say, oh, yeah, well, that'll happen. When a man walks on the moon, the 1969 walks around. That happens. Now what? So that's a big part of or in your life. You're saying, okay, what is it that I need to do to figure out what is in my mind? To say this is impossible. I mean going to the moon. That had to be beyond impossible. Trying to even explain that to the people, even Like family members, like hey, I'm going to see the moon right there, I'm going to be walking on that soon, families probably like you know, alright, yeah, whatever, well, you know that probably will blow up in midair or whatever it is.
Speaker 2:
This is the beautiful thing of having it where you're an independent thinker say, alright, I want to do this. This is what makes me Just tick to say I want to be on the moon. So From there you say, well, what is it that makes me want to push Forward so hard that no one on planet Earth has ever been able to do? And that's what NASA was, a was allowed to do when they sent the, the astronauts out there in Apollo 11, they put the flag of the, the American, the flag, on the moon. I mean these are beautiful things that you just like, wow.
Speaker 2:
You sit there even watching the videos of the first time the man Hit the moon. You're like, oh my god. I mean, just imagine being right there to watch the TV and say this is now where we've pushed Technology to such a extent that it's not even understandable to the, even the human that's watching this. I mean it's so unbelievable that people are like, oh yeah, they filmed that in some movie studio in Arizona and they faked the moon landing. It's like whatever, okay, whatever. So I mean, look it is what it is. So I mean that, look, that wraps up our Cosmic ride for today. It's exhilarating to look up and and just see the sky and think that what is the future of space travel? How could it become a part of our lives?
Speaker 2:
So Keep thinking you know, keep the star, starry skies just up there in your, in your back, your mind. You know the the sky is no longer the limit. So alright, well, with that being said, I wanted to have it when the next episode is going to be the luxury cars and economical vehicles. So it's going to be kind of like why would you buy a luxury version economy car? What's the reason? You know, is it just a flex or is there a purpose behind it? So hey, that being said, guys, next we're going to be diving into that. So tune in, find out signing off from the observation station, stay curious and just keep it smiling. Bye, bye, everybody.
Speaker 1:
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