OTHERWORLDLY DESTINATIONS
SPOTS TO VISIT HERE ON EARTH IF YOU DREAM OF TRAVELLING TO SPACE
R
ichard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has launched a vessel that reached
the edge of space. Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, wants to
ferry people to Mars by the hundreds, with an ambitious goal of
landing the first humans on the red planet around 2025. With July 20 of
this year marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moonwalk, all eyes
are focused on the skies. National Geographic, too, has been celebrating
the cosmos over the past year; see nationalgeographic.com/starstruck. It’s
enough to give Earthlings a serious case of interplanetary wanderlust, but
you can’t book your tickets just yet. For aspiring space tourists eager for
a celestial experience, we offer some terrestrial places with a distinctively
off-planet flavour.
—Brad ScriberTHE ITINERARY U.S.A.36 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER INDIA | JULY 2019