Less well known than the likes of Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic, this ten-year-old private space-infrastructure developer partners with SpaceX and NASA to send private astronauts to the International Space Station. These missions typically last about two weeks in orbit and require extensive preparation—often between 700 and 1,000 hours of astronaut-style training. Tickets for these missions cost around $70 million per person. Axiom also plans to build the world’s first commercial space station later this decade, potentially creating a new destination for private space travelers.

Read more in my post The State of Space Tourism in 2026.