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 Virgin Galactic.
Is 2121 finally the year space tourism gets normalized?
Blue Origin Bezos, Branson, Musk, Shatner, Russian film crews - things are happening fast and furious up in the final frontier this year. The journal The Space Review takes an overview look.
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space tourism is definitely becoming a reality with RocketShip Tours, Space Adventures, and Virgin Galactic all getting into the game....