Start-up Company Offers Customers Astronaut Training Services

摘要

A company offering a training regimen for would-be space tourists that the proprietor describes as "Space Camp on steroids" opened for business May 1 at the Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport in Tampa Bay, Fla. Aurora Aerospace offers enhanced gravity and microgravity aircraft flights and other astronaut training services for paying customers, who would then be prepared for more expensive suborbital or even orbital flights. About a dozen clients have sampled the services to date, although none has signed up for the full training regimen, Howard Chip-man, Aurora's founder, president and chief executive, said May 27 here at Space Investment Summit 6.