Space Tourism Trips

Abstract

These are just some of the more adventurous space tourism possibilities that have been suggested over the years. In fact, one of the trips listed is close to being realized because Space Adventures has sold one of its two tickets to the Moon—an odyssey that will have the historic significance of being the first privately financed voyage to the Moon, as long as the company can sell the other ticket (ticket price is US$150 million) that is. Space Adventures happens to be the first (and so far the only) company to send tourists to space. Their latest, and perhaps most famous client, is sopranonaut Sarah Brightman, who will make a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. The 2013 announcement that an international recording superstar will be flying to the ISS was a far cry from 2001, when Dennis Tito, a largely unknown former NASA-engineer-turned-investment-manager, climbed aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for an eight-day trip to the orbiting outpost.