Defined as the lifting of paying passengers beyond Earth's atmosphere for essentially recreational purposes, commercial space tourism essentially began in 2001 with the trip of a U.S. financial entrepreneur aboard a Russian Soyuz and has since been dominated by companies including Axiom Space, Blue Origin, SpaceX, and (until March 2023) Virgin Galactic.
And for good measure, we're throwing in ground-based space tourism in places like Toulouse, France; Cape Kennedy/Canaveral, Florida; Huntsville, Alabama, even French Guiana.
And we have...lift off!
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