AERA Corporation refers to a prospective space tourism company that claims it will operate the "the safest space flight system ever created." Altairis, SACI's first generation suborbital spacecraft. It is vertically launched, lands horizontally and can send seven passengers to space. The first flight remains scheduled for 2006. Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. ...

It appears the AERA website has been moved to a new domain under its true company name, AeraSpaceTours. Copies of animations and images are available on this site. AeraSpaceTours appears to be an operator, much like an Airline company. The designer and manufacturer of the Altairis is by a different company, Sprague Astronautics.

While the company has been highly secretive regarding its internal activities, some sources outside the company claim that the design of the Altairis was begun in the late 1990's, and that SACI has completed significant hardware testing.

See also

• Private spaceflight
• Virgin Galactic - Space tourism company started by Richard Branson and Scaled Composites
• Rocketplane Limited, Inc. - Space tourism company funded by George French
• SpaceX - Space tourism company funded by Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal
• Blue Origin - Space tourism company funded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
• Armadillo Aerospace - Space tourism by John Carmack, creator of Doom and Quake

This space for sale During the early years of spaceflight only nation states had the resources to develop and fly spacecraft. ... Virgin Galactic is a spaceline in Sir Richard Bransons Virgin Group, which plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public. ... Sir Richard Branson during the announcement of the Virgin Express airline which would compete with Ryanair and EasyJet. ... Scaled Composites (often abbreviated as Scaled) was founded in 1982 in Mojave, California by famous aircraft designer Burt Rutan out of what used to be the Rutan Aircraft Factory. ... Rocketplane Limited, Inc. ... The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) is a space-transportation startup company whose stated goal is to improve the cost and reliability of access to space ultimately by a factor of ten. It is based in El Segundo, California. ... Elon Musk Elon Musk (born: 1971, South Africa) is an Internet and space launch entrepreneur. ... PayPal is an Internet business which allows the transfer of money between email users and merchants, avoiding traditional paper methods such as checks/cheques and money orders. ... Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight. ... Jeff Bezos on the cover of TIME as Person of the Year 1999 Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon. ... Amazon. ... Armadillo Aerospace is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. ... John Carmack circa 2004 John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. ... Doom (or DOOM) is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is among the landmark titles in the first-person shooter genre. ... Zombies attacking the player. ...

External links

• Sprague Astronautics