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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As NASA and the part of Florida known as the ‘Space Coast’ is trying to reshape its selfimage after the permanent grounding of the Space Shuttle program, the agency’s last surviving vehicle, Atlantis.
During NASA’s heydays, the agency drew crowds from all over the world to every new rocket launch at Cape Canaveral. But the days of government organized and financed space adventures are long gone, and as the Traveling Reporter discovered during our visit to the Space Coast, some people seem to bel
