hamshakin attajirin nan dan kasar Burtaniya Sir Richard Branson zai kaddamar da wata sana'a a ranar litinin mai zuwa wanda nan ba da dadewa ba zai iya daukar masu yawon bude ido a balaguron balaguron duniya zuwa sararin samaniya - akan dala 200,000 kacal.
Wurin da ya yi kama da wata na hamadar Mojave tsakanin Los Angeles da Las Vegas za ta fara fitar da jirgin ruwa na Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (SS2), yaron kwakwalwar injiniyan sararin samaniya Burt Rutan.
Kamfanin SS2, wanda zai iya daukar fasinjoji shida da matuka biyu, yana shirin fara gwajin jirage a shekara mai zuwa da fara zirga-zirgar kasuwanci tsakanin shekarar 2011 zuwa 2012.
Virgin Galactic, mallakar Branson's Virgin Group da Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments, ta ce kusan masu fafutuka 300 daga ko'ina cikin duniya sun biya jimillar dala miliyan 40 a cikin ajiya don ba da tabbacin tabo kan na'urar abin al'ajabi.
Kwararrun Aerospace sun riga sun yi tayin kan jiragen da ke karkashin kasa a matsayin na gaba na tafiyar kasuwanci.
Pamela Hurley-Moser, mai Hurley Travel Experts a Portland, Oregon, yana cikin masu ba da shawara kan balaguro 50 da aka zaɓa a matsayin amintattun wakilan sararin samaniya na Virgin Galactic.
Kamfanin yanzu yana alfahari na musamman ga Iceland, Thailand da, a, sarari.
Amma yawon shakatawa a sararin samaniya, a halin yanzu, ya kasance keɓantaccen gogewa da aka keɓance ga waɗanda ke son biyan kuɗi mai tsoka don zama a cikin jirage na awoyi biyu da rabi mai nisan kilomita 100 (mil 62) sama da ƙasa.
"Kamar yadda jirgin sama, da kuma kafin wannan jirgin kasa da mota, da farko wasu za su je sararin samaniya, amma a ƙarshe, nan da shekaru ɗari masu zuwa, sararin samaniya zai zama ruwan dare," in ji Charles Chafer, babban jami'in Space Services, wanda ya ƙware. a cikin jana'izar sararin samaniya.
A cikin 2007, kamfanin Houston, Texas ya saki toka na tauraron "Star Trek" James Doohan.
Amma Hong Kong zuwa London a cikin sa'o'i uku?
"Wannan mai yiwuwa ne," Chafer ya shaida wa AFP. "Kuma tarihin safarar ɗan adam ya nuna cewa lokacin da zai yiwu a rage lokutan balaguro, kasuwanni suna girma don ba da damar wannan aikin."
Mai magana da yawun Hukumar Kula da Sararin Samaniya Susan Schonfeld ta lura cewa yanzu haka kamfanin na daukar tokar daruruwan mutane a lokaci guda zuwa sararin samaniya, sama da mutane kusan 27 a shekarar 2007.
"A cikin shekaru da yawa, na sami damar yin magana da ɗaruruwa da ɗaruruwan mutane daga ko'ina cikin duniya," in ji ta. "Mun ƙaddamar da shahararrun mutane… amma kashi 99 na mutane mutane ne na yau da kullun kamar ni waɗanda ke da zurfin zurfin bincike na yi imani yana cikin mu duka."
Ga Chafer, abin da a yau ya zama kamar sha'awa ga masu sha'awar miliyoniya za su ƙarfafa gina gine-gine don tsarin tauraron dan adam na hasken rana, binciken asteroid, hakar ma'adinai da bincike na mahadi mai rahusa don samarwa a cikin microgravity.
"Tsarin jigilar kayayyaki kayan aiki ne," in ji jami'in kula da sararin samaniya.
"Da zarar mun sami jigilar kayayyaki na yau da kullun zuwa sararin samaniya da sararin samaniya za mu ga an rage tafiye-tafiyen kasuwanci da lokacin isar da kayayyaki kuma za mu fara ganin gine-ginen manyan wurare a cikin kewayar duniya."
Don ƙaddamar da ranar Litinin, ƙungiyar mata ta WhiteKnightTwo, wacce ke da tsawon fikafikan ƙafa 140 (mita 42.7), za ta ɗauki ƙaramin jirgin ruwan roka na SS2 mai nisan ƙafa 50,000 (kilomita 15.2) zuwa sararin samaniya kafin ya tashi ya fashe har gaɓar sararin samaniya.
A can, masu yawon bude ido za su iya samun minti biyar na rashin nauyi a cikin ɗakin da ke da tagogi masu madauwari a gefe da rufi.
"Yayin da ɗan adam ke motsawa zuwa wasu taurari da jikkuna a cikin tsarin hasken rana, ba shakka za mu tashi zuwa - kuma a ƙarshe za mu zauna a cikin sararin samaniya," in ji Chafer.
