Rajni Pandey | October 30, 2024
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is a leader in space tourism, offering missions like the all-civilian Inspiration4 and working towards private lunar missions.
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has made significant strides with its reusable New Shepard rocket, offering suborbital flights for civilians, including its high-profile launch with William Shatner.
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is another pioneer, offering suborbital flights to the edge of space with its spaceplane, VSS Unity.
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Axiom Space is building the first private space station and offers private missions to the International Space Station (ISS), promising to make space tourism a reality for more people.
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Space Adventures has already flown private passengers to the ISS and plans more private space missions, including potential lunar flybys.
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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule is designed for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and could eventually cater to space tourists for trips to the ISS.
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Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spacecraft is set to transport cargo and potentially tourists to space as part of NASA missions.
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Orbital Assembly Corporation is developing space hotels and space habitats, aiming to make extended stays in space a reality for tourists by the 2030s.
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Deep Blue Aerospace, a Chinese startup, plans to offer space tourism flights by 2027, making significant advancements in reusable rocket technology.
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Backed by the Chinese government, CAS Space aims to enter the space tourism market by 2028, with plans for suborbital flights to take civilians to space.
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