Space tourism Space tourism Bigelow Aerospace is a Las Vegas, Nevada space technology start-up company that is pioneering work on expandable space station modules. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bigelow Aerospace"
Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight founded in 2000. The company is owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and headquartered in a warehouse situated on 25 acres of industrial land in the Seattle, Washington suburb of Kent, Washington, where its research and development is located. It has its testing and operations center in Culberson County, Texas, on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000 acre (668 km²) spread north of Van Horn and 15 miles south of the Guadalupe Mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blue Origin"
Daisuke Enomoto (榎本大輔 Enomoto Daisuke) (born April 22, 1971) (nicknamed Dice-K) is a Japanese businessman and former Livedoor executive who is in line to become the fourth space tourist. He would fly on board Soyuz TMA-9 in the fall of 2006. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daisuke Enomoto"
Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is a United States multimillionaire who gained celebrity status by becoming the first space tourist to pay for his own ticket. Tito has a Bachelor of Science in Astronautics and Aeronautics from New York University, 1962 and he later received a Master of Science in Engineering Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He received an honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on 18 May, 2002 and is a former scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1972 he founded Wilshire Associates, a leading provider of investment management, consulting and technology services in Santa Monica, California, Tito serves an international clientele representing assets of $12.5 trillion. Wilshire relies on the field of quantitative analytics, which uses mathematical tools to analyze market risks - a methodology Tito is credited with helping to develop by applying the same techniques he used to determine a spacecraft's path at JPL. Despite a career change from aerospace engineering to investment management, Tito never lost his interest in, and commitment to, space exploration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dennis Tito"
Deep Space Expedition Alpha (DSE-Alpha), is the name given to the mission planned to take the first space tourists to fly around the moon. The mission is organized by Space Adventures Ltd. who were responisble for taking the first space tourist Dennis Tito into orbit in 2001. The plans involve a modified Soyuz capsule docking with a booster rocket in Earth orbit which sends them on a free return trajectory that flies around the moon once. Tickets cost $100,000,000. It is hoped that launch will take place before 2010. ...more on Wikipedia about "DSE-Alpha"
Gregory Hammond "Greg" Olsen (b. April 20, 1945) is an American entrepreneur and scientist who in October 2005 became the third private citizen to make a paid trip into space. He is the co-founder and present chairman of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a company developing optoelectronic devices such as sensitive near- infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) cameras. One of Sensors Unlimited's major customers is NASA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gregory Olsen"
Mark Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur. Shuttleworth was born in Welkom, Free State, South Africa. As an early space tourist, he was the first African national in space. He currently lives in London and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and Britain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark Shuttleworth"
Robert Bigelow is a hotel entrepreneur with a keen interest in space flight. He made his fortune through the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Bigelow"
Rocketplane Limited, Inc. is an aerospace design and development company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with facilities in Guthrie, Oklahoma and Burns Flat, Oklahoma. Rocketplane is currently building and planning to operate the Rocketplane XP for space tourism purposes with plans to fly in 2007. For a price of about $200,000, passengers will be able to purchase one ticket for a seat on a suborbital flight, including 4 minutes of weightlessness and an apogee of over 100 kilometers altitude. The company is also working on other projects that they expect to be highly profitable. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rocketplane Limited, Inc."
The Scaled Composites SpaceShipThree is a proposed orbital spaceplane to be developed by Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites if SpaceShipTwo is successful. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scaled Composites SpaceShipThree"
The Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo is a suborbital spaceplane currently under development to become the successor to SpaceShipOne. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will operate using a small fleet of five of these craft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo"
Space Adventures Ltd. is an Arlington, Virginia-based space tourism company founded in 1998, best known for sending paying tourists to the International Space Station (ISS). Space Adventures is currently the only operating spaceline in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Adventures"
Takafumi Horie (堀江貴文: Horie Takafumi; October 29, 1972–) is a Japanese entrepreneur who won a name for himself as the CEO of Livedoor (officially: livedoor Co., Ltd), an internet enterprise that grew out of a website-design operation into an internet portal involved in a wide range of businesses. Horie was born in Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and was raised in an unexceptional household by a salaryman father and mother from a farming family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Takafumi Horie"
Toyohiro Akiyama (秋山豊寛 Akiyama Toyohiro) (born July 22, 1942) is a Japanese TV journalist and cosmonaut. ...more on Wikipedia about "Toyohiro Akiyama" http://www.shortopedia.com - Go in quickly.
Virgin Galactic is a spaceline in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer suborbital spaceflights to the paying public. ...more on Wikipedia about "Virgin Galactic"
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