Space Tourism

The next most talked-about tourist category, according to GlobalData's Social Media Analytics Platform, is space tourism. Human space travel for leisure is known as space tourism. Space tourism comes in a variety of forms, including orbital, suborbital, and lunar space tourism.

Seven space tourists completed eight space missions to the International Space Station between 2001 and 2009 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which Space Adventures coordinated with Roscosmos and RSC Energia. The advertised cost per journey was in the neighborhood of $20–25 million USD. Some space travelers have agreements in place with other parties to carry out specific research tasks while in orbit. One of the early businesses that would be expected to develop for commercial spaceflight is anticipated to be space tourism.