Space tourism Space tourism Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. To date, orbital space tourism has been performed only by the Russian Space Agency. Work also continues towards developing suborbital space tourism vehicles. This is being done by aerospace companies like Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic. In addition, SpaceX (an aerospace manufacturer) announced in 2018 that it is planning on sending two space tourists on a free-return trajectory around the Moon on the upper stage of SpaceX's BFR rocket, known as the
Space Tourism Society Space Tourism Society The Space Tourism Society (STS) was founded in 1996. It is the first organization specifically focused on the space tourism industry. Their stated goals, quoted from their website: "To conduct the research, build public desire, and acquire the financial and political power to make space tourism available to as many people as possible as soon as possible." STS has chapters in Japan, Norway, Canada, Malaysia, India, Russia and the United Kingdom, and is an organization member of the Alliance for Space Development. The STS is a California 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in the USA. STS aims to