A package costs £1,750 for a seven-night bareboat (uncrewed) charter for up to six people in two cabins and bunks in the living area, with snorkelling gear (excludes damage waiver and fuel).
His plan is this: first, to send eight uncrewed rockets, filled with equipment, materials and robots to assemble a base, 2,000 sq ft of living and work space, built of rocket capsules and tough inflatables.
If all goes well†, the uncrewed spacecraft will orbit the Earth twice before landing in the Pacific Ocean.
Last week the lesson was hammered home again, on two separate occasions.On October 28th an uncrewed Antares rocket operated by Orbital Sciences, a company contracted by NASA to fly supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), blew itself up shortly after launching from a pad in Virginia.
Shenzhou 8 and 9 were, respectively, China's first uncrewed and crewed space docking.
It served one final function, however, by receiving the prototype of an automated, uncrewed form of the Soyuz spacecraft, called Progress, that was being developed to resupply future stations.
The uncrewed spacecraft Shenzhou 8 automatically docked with Tiangong 1 in November 2011.
This week, two uncrewed cargo ships arrived just two days apart from one another.
The uncrewed Progress 59P cargo vessel has been tumbling around the planet at about 17,000mph since it reached orbit last Tuesday.
Isro's aim is to fly a series of test flights to develop an uncrewed, reusable vehicle for cheap, regular access to space.
