{"id":208208,"date":"2025-03-09T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/forget-supersonic-jets-these-ultra-fast-spaceplanes-could-soon-take-you-around-the-world-in-90-minutes"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T19:19:08","slug":"forget-supersonic-jets-these-ultra-fast-spaceplanes-could-soon-take-you-around-the-world-in-90-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/forget-supersonic-jets-these-ultra-fast-spaceplanes-could-soon-take-you-around-the-world-in-90-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Forget Supersonic Jets. These Ultra-Fast Spaceplanes Could Soon Take You Around the World in 90 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After an initial focus on scientific research, including Sierra\u2019s partnership<\/a> with Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origins on developing a private space station, the Dream Chaser will be involved in commercial operations by hauling cargo and shuttling scientists and researchers to and from space stations.<\/p>\n

Both Sierra Space and Radian also have space-tourism aspirations that go beyond much of what\u2019s currently available, including 11-minute flights by Virgin Galactic<\/a> and Blue Origin<\/a>, and longer space-balloon flights by companies like Space Perspective<\/a> and Zephalto<\/a> that do not reach Low Earth Orbit. \u201cPassengers will be able to go up and stay in orbit,\u201d says Humphrey, whose company has the most developed passenger plans right now. \u201cWe can go around the planet in about 95 minutes, so a typical trip will probably be three laps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visits to one or more of the six space stations currently under development lie ahead as well. \u201cWe\u2019re calling it purposeful tourism,\u201d says Angie Wise, Sierra\u2019s chief safety officer and SVP of mission and quality assurance. \u201cYou\u2019ll get the experience of going to space, but we\u2019ll also put you to work helping with experiments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After an initial focus on scientific research, including Sierra\u2019s partnership with Jeff Bezos\u2019s Blue Origins on developing a private space station, the Dream Chaser will be involved in commercial operations by hauling cargo and shuttling scientists and researchers to and from space stations. Both Sierra Space and Radian also have space-tourism aspirations that go beyond [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}