Next Giant Leap for Space Tourism: A Trip Around the Moon
This story is part of a week-long series on the first decade of space tourism, which began on April 2001. Also today on SPACE.com: How space tourism is changing the face of suborbital science. Full story
How the space tourism business could see orbital boom
Orbital space tourism is a niche industry at the moment, but business could really boom if costs come down by a couple of orders of magnitude, a new study asserts. Full story
Space Race II: Tourism is the new frontier
Fifty years after the Soviet Union beat the United States to send the first human to space, a new space race is heating up. Full story
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Boeing plans passenger space travel
Boeing plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit. Msnbc's Alex Witt talks with space and science correspondent Dave Brody.
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