Space Tourism

California rocket firm has its first space tourist

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A Danish adventurer is first in line to ride aboard a privately funded, two-seat rocket ship designed by a California rocket maker to fly about 37 miles above Earth.

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Space tourists to get limited protection

The European Aviation Safety Agency is developing safety rules for civilian space flight - but they will only apply while craft are in the Earth's atmosphere.

Tapping Into Space Tourism

Scots countdown to space tourism

The night sky above Scotland could become as important to tourism as its landscape by day, according to experts on space and tourism.

Space tourism gets a nod from the pro

Top US astronaut welcomes space tourism

TOKYO — The commander of the latest US shuttle mission Tuesday welcomed the advent of space tourism, predicting that such travel is on the brink of the massive growth seen a century ago with airplan

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Space tourists' carrier unveiled

The mothership that will launch the first space tourists into the atmosphere has been unveiled by Sir Richard Branson in California.

"Greatest Ride Off Earth"

Space tourism is ready for takeoff

Wanna see outer space? The round trip will only take 30 minutes.

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Space tourism firms set for big leaps

NEW YORK — Two space tourism firms hoping to give fare-paying customers the rides of their lives are set to take some major steps forward in coming months.

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ESA: space tourism greener than ordinary airline flights

Suborbital rocketplane flights of the type planned by Virgin Galactic - and other nascent space-tourism ventures - would have a lower carbon burden than ordinary airline journeys, according to the European Space Agency.

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Opening the space frontier, one tourist at a time

The view will be one unlike any other.

Climbing up through the clouds at a rate faster than the speed of sound, the sky will darken to a deep blue and then to black. Below, entire mountain ranges, coastlines and cities will shift into focus as the horizon bends around the curvature of the Earth - the thin veil of its atmosphere ... read more

South Australia - Space. Non-Stop.

South Australia wants space tourists

The South Australian Tourism Commission wants British billionaire, and head of Virgin, Richard Branson, to consider the State's outback for one of his most ambitious ventures.

The British entrepreneur hopes his Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which is still being developed, will take tourists into space within the next two years.

Space Tourism Is New. Competition Is Old.

2-seat rocket planned for space tourism

LOS ANGELES - A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 37 miles above the Earth.

No Insurance - No Space?

Experts: Space tourism faces challenges from insurance companies

The personal spaceflight business — also known as space tourism — will face high hurdles from the insurance business in its early years, according to several industry experts.

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'Thrillionaire' signs on as backup space tourist

An Australian entrepreneur and self-described "thrillionaire" has signed on as the backup space tourist for the next paid flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Virgin Galactic unveils Suborbital Spaceliner design

Future thrill-seekers will ride a sleek spacecraft berthed under a massive, twin-boom mothership to the fringe of space in a design unveiled Wednesday by Virgin Galactic.

The SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier will begin initial tests this summer to shakedown the novel spaceflight system designed by aerospace pioneer ... read more

Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites must pay $25,870 after three workers died

Space tourism firm fined over deaths

Scaled Composites, the fledgling space tourism company founded by rocket pioneer Burt Rutan, was fined $25,870 on Friday as a result of an accident last July that killed three workers at the firm's Mojave, Calif., testing facility.

Russia

Russian Space Agency Predicts Death of Space Tourism After 2009

(eTN) - Sending space tourists to the International Space Station using Russian spaceships may become problematic after 2009, according to the head of the Russian Space Agency (RSA) of the RF Anatoly Perminov.

Kazakhstan Tourism

Sky is not the limit for Kazakhstan

(eTN) - Needless to say, Kazakhstan flies people to the moon and suborbital space from its Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world's oldest and largest operational space launch pad. Being the first space harbor on the planet, the destination considers it important to develop tourism at the Baikonour, after the world’s first ever space tourist Anousheh ... read more