LONDON – Za a iya yin tafiye-tafiye na dogon lokaci a cikin jiragen ruwa maimakon jirage a cikin shekaru 20 idan kokarin da Virgin ke yi na tallata tafiye-tafiyen sararin samaniya ya yi nasara, in ji shugaban Virgin Galactic a wata hira da kamfanin dillancin labarai na Reuters.
Will Whitehorn ya ce shirin Virgin na daukar masu yawon bude ido zuwa sararin samaniya mataki ne na farko da zai iya bude wa kamfanin damammaki da dama da suka hada da kimiyyar sararin samaniya, gonakin sabar kwamfuta a sararin samaniya da kuma maye gurbin jirage masu dogon zango.
Virgin Galactic, wani bangare na Richard Branson's Virgin Group, ya tattara dala miliyan 40 a cikin adibas daga masu son zuwa sararin samaniya da suka hada da masanin kimiyya Stephen Hawking da tsohon direban tseren Niki Lauda, kuma yana fatan fara tafiye-tafiyen kasuwanci cikin shekaru biyu.
Whitehorn ya ce ajiyar mutane 300 da ke son biyan dala 200,000 kowanne na jirgin sama ya gamsar da Virgin cewa wannan kamfani yana da inganci. A halin yanzu tana gudanar da jigilar gwaji kuma tana fatan nan ba da jimawa ba za ta sami lasisi daga Hukumar Kula da Sufurin Jiragen Sama ta Tarayya.
"Muna bukatar mu san cewa muna da ingantaccen tsarin kasuwanci," in ji shi a gefen taron Mujallar Duniya ta FIPP, inda aka gayyace shi don yin magana kan kirkire-kirkire.
Virgin ta yi iƙirarin cewa fasaharta, wacce ke sakin jirgin ruwa zuwa sararin samaniyar sararin samaniya ta hanyar amfani da jirgin jigilar jet, ya fi dacewa da muhalli fiye da fasahar roka na gargajiya.
Kayayyakin da ba na ƙarfe ba waɗanda aka gina jirgin su ma sun fi sauƙi kuma suna buƙatar ƙasa da ƙarfi fiye da, misali, jiragen sama na NASA, in ji Whitehorn.
Ya hango amfani da jirgin don gwaje-gwajen kimiyya, misali a matsayin madadin ziyartar tashar sararin samaniya ta kasa da kasa ko yin amfani da jirage marasa matuki ga kamfanonin harhada magunguna da ke neman amfani da microgravity don canza barbashi.
Daga baya, za a iya amfani da jirgin wajen harba kananan tauraron dan adam ko daukar wasu kaya masu nauyi zuwa sararin samaniya, in ji Whitehorn. "Za mu iya sanya duk gonakin sabar mu a sararin samaniya cikin sauƙi."
Da aka tambaye shi game da tasirin muhalli, ya nuna cewa za su iya zama gaba ɗaya mai amfani da hasken rana, ya kuma ce ta kowane hali rashin jituwa a sararin samaniya yana da wahala a yi barna fiye da barin tarkace.
"Tsarin gurɓata yanayi yana da matukar wahala," in ji shi.
A ƙarshe, yana ganin yiwuwar jigilar fasinjoji zuwa wurare na duniya a cikin jiragen sama a waje da sararin samaniya maimakon jirgin sama. Ya ce ana iya yin tafiya daga Biritaniya zuwa Ostiraliya cikin kusan sa'o'i 2-1/2.
"Wannan shine hangen nesa na shekaru 20," in ji shi.
Budurwa ba ita ce kawai ƙungiya mai zaman kanta da ke ƙoƙarin haɓaka tafiye-tafiyen sararin samaniya a cikin masu zaman kansu ba, amma Whitehorn na da kwarin gwiwa cewa ita ce ta farko da za ta ɗauki fasinjoji zuwa sararin samaniya.
SpaceX, karkashin jagorancin hamshakin dan kasuwa na Silicon Valley Elon Musk, na kera motocin harba sararin samaniya amma ba a kera su don daukar fasinjoji ba.
Whitehorn ya ce ya samu maganganu masu yawa na sha'awa daga kudade da sauran cibiyoyi da kamfanoni masu sha'awar shiga cikin kasuwancin, wanda zai yi la'akari da su.
"Mun fahimci yiwuwar za mu iya kawo mai saka hannun jari," in ji shi. "Ina tsammanin za a sami bangon kuɗi da ke shiga sararin samaniya."
Da aka tambaye shi game da yadda ya dace da muhalli don haɓaka yawon shakatawa na sararin samaniya, wanda za a iya cewa ba wanda yake buƙata tun farko, Whitehorn ya ce babu wani ayyukan da ya yi hasashen nan gaba da zai yiwu ba tare da fara tabbatar da tsarin kasuwanci ba.
"Ba za ku iya haɓaka tsarin ba a wannan matakin ba tare da haɓaka kasuwanni ba," in ji shi.
Ya kuma bayar da hujjar cewa gogewar kallon duniya daga sararin samaniya zai canza halayen mutane.
"Mutane 500 ne kawai a sararin samaniya ya zuwa yanzu, kuma kowannensu ya ci $50 zuwa dala miliyan 100 a matsakaici," in ji shi. "Kowane dan sama jannati masanin muhalli ne."
