LOS ANGELES - Lokacin da wani jirgin ruwa mai zaman kansa ya hau kan California don neman kyautar dala miliyan 10, dan jari-hujja Alan Walton yana da shekaru 68 kuma ya yi tunanin zai hau roka na kansa nan ba da jimawa ba.
Walton ya biya dala 200,000 don kasancewa cikin farkon masu yawon buɗe ido a sararin samaniya don yin tafiya mai ban sha'awa a sama da ƙasa, a cikin wani jirgin ruwa na Virgin Galactic.
Yanzu yana da niyyar neman a mayar masa da ajiyarsa idan babu ƙayyadadden ranar ƙaddamar da ranar haihuwarsa ta 74 a watan Afrilu.
"Wannan zai zama babban abin farin ciki na tsufa na," in ji shi.
Shekaru biyar ke nan da SpaceShipOne, na farko da ke da kudin shiga cikin sirri, ya kama lambar yabo ta Ansari X ranar 4 ga Oktoba, 2004, ta hanyar nuna cewa roka mai iya sake amfani da shi mai iya daukar fasinjoji zai iya tashi sama da nisan mil 62 a sama sau biyu cikin makonni biyu.
Sha'awar da SpaceShipOne ya yi ya yi yawa a wannan shekarar, wanda tun kafin jirgin da ya samu lambar yabo, dan kasar Burtaniya Richard Branson ya sanar da yarjejeniyar yin amfani da fasahar a wani tsari na zamani na biyu, SpaceShipTwo, don jigilar fasinjojin kasuwanci a karkashin tutar Virgin Galactic nan da shekara ta 2007.
Da alama duk wanda ya sami kuɗin nan ba da jimawa ba zai fuskanci abin da matukin jirgi na SpaceShipOne Brian Binnie ya kira "a zahiri gaggawa."
Juya mafarkin zuwa gaskiya ya dauki tsawon lokaci fiye da yadda ake tsammani, kuma jirgin sama ya ci gaba da zama yankin 'yan sama jannati na gwamnati da kuma wasu tsirarun attajirai da suka biya miliyoyin kudin hawan rokoki na Rasha zuwa tashar sararin samaniya ta kasa da kasa.
Amma wanda ya kafa lambar yabo ta X Peter Diamandis ya ce abubuwa ba su tsaya cik ba.
An zuba sama da dala biliyan 1 a masana'antar, an kuma magance shingaye masu tsari sannan kuma jiragen fasinja guda uku za su fito cikin watanni 18 zuwa 24 kuma su fara tashi, in ji shi.
"Za ku sami wani babban alluran jin daɗi don amfanin jama'a da zarar motocin sun fara aiki kuma jama'a sun fara tashi," in ji shi.
Ma'aikacin kasuwancin kaya Edwin Sahakian ya ga alamun ci gaba. Shi da wasu abokan cinikin Virgin Galactic guda hudu sun sami kallo a SpaceShipTwo a wannan bazara yayin ziyarar da aka yi a masana'antar Scaled Composites a Filin Jirgin Sama na Mojave.
“Wannan ba babban izgili ba ne. Wannan shi ne ainihin abin," in ji Sahakian.
Ana sa ran kaddamar da SpaceShipTwo da aka kammala a watan Disamba. Za a fara jigilar jirage masu saukar ungulu na gwaji a shekara mai zuwa, kuma za a yi harba sararin samaniya nan da shekara ta 2011, in ji Will Whitehorn, shugaban Virgin Galactic.
