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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The state of space tourism in 2026

Long imagined in science fiction, space tourism became a reality in 2001 when U.S. entrepreneur Dennis Tito paid roughly $20 million for a week-long journey to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Over the following decade, only a small number of people followed in Tito’s footsteps. These trips were typically arranged by the private company Space Adventures in cooperation with the Russian space program. The price of admission remained extraordinarily high: between…

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Started by Max Pesling
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XCOR went Bankrupt in 2017

My story is that I was one of the original travel agents interested in selling the Lynx.  It was difficult.  The price was lower than Virgin Galactic and the idea was novel.  I didn't have clientele interested in that type of extreme adventure.  About a year after the XCOR launch, they released my contract for no sales.  It seemed that they also didn't have a marketing team.  I am sure I have the original brochure somewhere. then again, I might have put it in the recycle bin.  I still have…

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Started by Bye Bye Birdees Consulting
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