Founded in 1998, Space Adventures Ltd. is the world's leading space tourism, entertainment, and event-production company delivering the public opportunities to experience space today. WildWings have been UK agents since their inception, and were involved with the founders in their pre-launch plans.
Programmes
1. Orbital Flights — Space Adventures is the only company to have launched clients to the International Space Station, and has the only commercial orbital space flight opportunities available today
2. Sub-Orbital Flights — Space Adventures is the only company developing a passenger sub-orbital space program, with licensed passenger flights to launch in the 2006-2007 time frame.
3. Spaceflight Training — Space Adventures offers a variety of training experiences that can either be booked separately or together as part of a qualification program.
4 Space-related Flight Adventures — 'Zero Gravity' parabolic flights as well as high-performance, altitude, and G-force jet flights.
Clients
Space Adventures client base spans markets across the spectrum - from individual adventurers, to corporate buyers, to media firms, to family adventurers. Clients include:
• Individual Adventurers — The world's first space tourist, American businessman Dennis Tito flew to the International Space Station in April 2001. In April 2002, South African Internet tycoon Mark Shuttleworth became the company's second client to visit the orbiting outpost. Dr Greg Olsen is in training to fly as the third.
• Corporate Buyers — Major sponsorship and promotional corporate clients have included First USA Bank, Dole Foods, Pepsi, Nokia, US Airways, Lufthansa, Pizza Hut, Zed, Dr. Pepper, Delta Air Lines, Penzoil/Quakerstate, Red Letter Days, Espial, CNET, Gillette, WeCU, SpaceDisk, Sweepsclub.com, Gamers.com, Travelocity.com, British-American Tobacco, and Taco Bell.
• Media & Celebrity Clients — Two of our many celebrity clientele include James Cameron (Director, Titanic, Terminator) and fashion designer Isabell Kristensen; in addition to television clients 60 minutes Granada Media, BBC, Pioneer Productions, Hat Trick Productions, and Endemol Entertainment.
Strategic Partners & Relationships
Space Adventures has consistently partnered with industry leaders to expand the company's reach worldwide, as well develop new programmes and products:
• Industry Partners — Space Adventures has partnered in various capacities with several leading existing and start-up aerospace organizations such as XCOR Aerospace and the Mysichyev Design Bureau (designers of the Soviet Space Shuttle Buran), and several others which remain confidential.
• Government Partners — Space Adventures has worked hard to develop top-level relationships with key international government agencies including NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Department of Transportation (USA); The Russian Space Agency, RSC Energia, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center; in addition Ministry of Science & Industry in Australia and JAXA and ESA, the Japanese and European Space Agencies, respectively
Media & Publicity
* Articles featuring WildWings space travel have appeared in The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, News of the World, The Sun, GQ UK, FHM, New Scientist, Playboy (France) Cosmopolitan and many more. TV and radio interviews include BBCNews24, BBC World Service, BBC1 Weekend Watchdog, HTV, Radio’s 1 and 4, Virgin Radio, and CNN. WildWings have appeared in London with U.S.Astronauts Charlie Walker and Norm Thagard at Destinations and Tomorrow’s World Live. John Brodie-Good gave the opening speech at the Millennium Forecast Forum, World Travel Market, London in December 1999 ‘ Space: The New Tourism Market’
