by Calum Wilson | Feb 12, 2024 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Space
Once a notion of science fiction, some tourists are now looking beyond jetting overseas and instead reaching for the stars. Will a summer break be spent on the beach looking to the horizon where the sea and sky meet or looking down from the edge of space, witnessing...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Sep 22, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight
On September 13, 2023, Titan Travel, part of the Saga Travel Group, waved off its first-ever private jet holiday on a 23-day Captivating Cultures grand tour. Operating under the flight number HAT2130, the 737-400 single aisle aircraft left from the private terminal at...
by Olivia Beresford | Jun 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight, Space
At 8:30am MT, the Galactic 01 spaceflight took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico, reaching an altitude of around 53 miles. The spaceflight evaluated and measured hypergravity to microgravity transition effects on the human body, including both biological and...
by Olivia Beresford | Jun 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Editorial Comment, Flight, Space
This mission represents a new era in government-funded commercial human-tended research missions. The crew will board VSS Unity for a 90-minute flight to conduct a series of suborbital science experiments. The mission’s two objectives are to conduct 13 human-tended...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jan 30, 2023 | Adventure Travel, Recruitment, Travel
UK-based travel security and health business International SOS has appointed ex-Boeing vice president and chief security officer Dave Komendat as its senior security advisor. SOS lauded Komendat as “one of the best in the business” and said he “will...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Aug 4, 2021 | Adventure Travel, Travel
Following four months of careful curation, aircraft charter specialist, Air Charter Service (ACS), has launched the latest in its ‘Time Well Spent’ series of specially designed private jet travel itineraries – ‘Across The Top Of The World’. Satisfying widespread...
