Introduction
Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. To date only orbital space tourism has taken place provided by the Russian Space Agency, although work continues developing sub-orbital space tourism vehicles by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic.
Why Space tourism?
Work towards realizing space tourism is finally starting to gather some momentum! Why is it going to happen this time?
• Because people want it and believe it as a realistic objective.
• Because it’s the only way in which space activities can become profitable and the quickest way to start to use the limitless resources of space to solve our problems on Earth.
Developing low-cost passenger launch vehicles is not just to create a pastime for the rich. In business, the companies that make big money are the ones that serve big markets. Like tourism on Earth, there....
