To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Seatle’s Space Needle, it was announced that the formal contest will be held with the final winner going up to suborbit, with about 6 minutes of zero gravity. This is once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Earth from space. Many astronauts call this a truly life changing […]
To celebrate the 50
th anniversary of Seatle’s Space Needle, it was announced that the formal contest will be held with the final winner going up to suborbit, with about 6 minutes of zero gravity. This is once in a lifetime opportunity to see the Earth from space. Many astronauts call this a truly life changing experience.
Since the final landing of the space shuttle the field of human space travel has been turned over to the private companies, one of which, Space Adventures, will be responsible for designing a vehicle to take the winner of the Space Needle contest into space. The estimated price of the grand prize is $110,000.
What do you need to do to enter?
- Sign up to enter at the Space Needle’s website
- Be lucky to be the randomly selected 1,000 finalists
- Create a 1 minute video that shows why you are the best candidate
- Be the lucky one chosen by the public
- Pass the fitness aptitude test
- Go up in space
