the soyuz chair

source: mobbitinfo

Когда-нибудь наступит тот день, когда каждый желающий сможет подняться на борт космического корабля и сгонять на выходные в соседнюю галактику :) Однако, пока космические путешествия (и то в демо-версии) – удел праздных миллионеров :) Тем не менее, испытать хотя бы часть тех ощущений, которые испытывают эти счастливчики, все же можно – достаточно поудобнее устроиться в кресле с ракеты «Союз», закрыв глаза и надев наушники. Кресло точно воспроизводит события всех 3 этапов запуска ракеты – размещает вас полулежа, правдоподобно погромыхивает и потряхивает вас. Пульт позволяет выбрать тот или иной режим «запуска» – отдельную стадию или все удовольствие целиком.
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source: we-make-money-not-art

Desperate to experience the thrill of a trip into space? If you can’t afford Space Adventures’s multi-million ticket to fly into space and if you don’t want to wait till 2011 to hop on one of Richard Branson’s upcoming Virgin Galactic flights, then the Soyuz Chair, designed by Design Interactions graduate Nelly Ben Hayoun is the best you can hope for right now. The comfortable living room chair won’t fly you into space but it will replicate the experience of a liftoff.

Space tourism is said to become a booming industry. Today, the opportunities offered to would-be space tourists are limited and expensive. Space tourism company Space Adventures will ask you to shell out $20-28 million to get aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. The upcoming Virgin Galactic will take passengers into suborbital space at a mere US$200,000. Flights are expected to be made available to the public shortly after the construction of Spaceport America, the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport is completed Around 2011.)

The designer consulted with astronaut Jean Pierre Haignere to ensure a take-off experience as close to the original one as possible: : the inclination of the chair, the frequencies of the vibration, the sound, etc. Soyuz Chair accurately reproduces the 3 stages of the Soyuz rocket launch. Reclining into launch position (on your back so as to stand better the acceleration), you face the sky, put on your headset, and use the control panel to select your mode; just a single stage, or the full lift off experience.

Interview with astronaut Jean Pierre Haignere:

Conceptually: The Soyuz chair brings the debate on
– the democratization of space and science
– the creative possibility of a domesticated space
– the power of human passion.
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source: di09rcaacuk

Space tourism is a great success. The possibilities of weightlessness, to feel the thrill of liftoff and to finally meet the unknown doesn’t have to be a fantasy anymore. But space tourism is still just for the few.

The Soyuz chair accurately reproduces the 3 stages of the Soyuz rocket launch. Reclining into launch position, you face the sky, put on your headset, and use the control panel to select your mode; just a single stage, or the full lift off experience.
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source: designboom

a collaboration of living room physics with the astronaut jean-pierre haigneré who lifted off twice from earth in the soyuz rocket, the soyuz chair designed by nelly ben hayoun, is a living-room chair which reproduces the three stages of that rocket launch. recline into the launch position, face the sky, put on your headset and use the control panel to select your mode. the chair comes with a remote for you to either choose the full 10 minute lift-off experience with three stages of intensity, or just the last 240 seconds – the most extreme stage of the journey.