UKRAINE EXPANDS SPACE Tourism

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UKRAINE EXPANDS SPACE Tourism PROGRAM
SpaceX and Virgin Galactic have piqued Ukraine's interest in privatizing its space activities, although the country is now more interested in technical payloads than human spaceflight.
A Ukrainian-American rocket that was launched from California's Vandenberg Space Base on September 2nd burst after two minutes of flight testing.
Alpha rocket was built by Ukraine's state-run Pivdenmash (Iuzmash) space firm in Dnipro for Ukrainian billionaire Max Poliakov's Firefly Aerospace.
As a result of a fuel system valve failure, one of the Alpha's four first-stage engines failed, forcing the team monitors to abort the launch.
Ukrainian space efforts are not new.
It is expected that a trip to the moon will be launched in 2022 by Ukrainian-American firm Spacebit.
So Ukraine can join the exclusive group of advanced-technology nations that can transport goods to the moon.
Firefly Aerospace stated that a second Alpha rocket testing would take place in December, after the September 2 test flight ended.
Throughout the last three decades, Kyiv has been relentlessly seeking foreign direct investment (FDI), with mixed outcomes.
While Ukraine's aerospace industry has shown interest in working with NASA, enough financing has eluded them.
The Dnipro-based space sector employs almost 11,000 highly trained technicians, raising concerns about job security.
Despite difficulties, the Ukrainian aerospace industry remains hopeful about technical and financial problems.
A launch site in Canada is planned for the Ukrainian Cyclone-4M rocket in 2022, according to Ukraine's State Space Agency director Volodymyr Taftai, in August 2021.
Taftai said that his agency hopes to approve a five-year space program with enough financing by the end of the year.
The absence of launch sites, however, is a limiting factor in Ukraine's space aspirations.
Furthermore, the country's space program is explicitly intended to avoid cooperation with Russia and its launch facilities, leaving Ukraine entirely reliant on European and North American facilities.
However, tense ties with its larger northeastern neighbor must be included into international investors' calculations.

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