Altius Space Machines Altius Space Machines Altius Space Machines is a seed-stage startup company that is developing a novel rendezvous and capture technology for uncooperative satellites. The company's products both enable, and are enabled by, the more recent lower-cost access to space epitomized by NewSpace launch companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace. In July 2011, Altius Space Machines won first place in the "2011 NewSpace Business Plan Competition" in Silicon Valley, sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation. Altius won a contract with DARPA in July 2012 to build a composite extensible robotic boom arm for the DARPA Phoenix project. They
Space Tourism Society provide the vision and voice for the evolution of humanity off-world in a humane, fun, and beautiful direction. STS was created to inspire people to build real products for future use in space. , the president of the society, John Spencer, is designing a space yacht aimed for cruising in Earth orbit. 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