Cottage industries on top of Virgin Galactic. Cute.

Loretta and George Whitesides plan to be the first couple to honeymoon in space. The sub-orbital spaceflight will launch the couple over 100 km high, past the boundary of space. The flight will include several minutes of weightlessness, a view of the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth.

2007-04-10: Space Adventures Lunar Mission

The first private expedition to the moon. Price – $100m By joining the Space Adventures Lunar Mission you will contribute to the dawning of a new era in space exploration and enter the history books alongside the great explorers of our time.

2007-06-29: Space Hotel with space-based bingo. oy

the company has sent a collection of pictures and other memorabilia from fee-paying customers keen to see their personal possessions photographed in space.” The company “also hopes to activate a space-based bingo game to be played by people back on Earth.”

2007-08-01: Galactic Suite space hotel

$4M for a 3 day stay. During that time guests would see the sun rise 15x a day

2008-01-26: 90% can do suborbital

NASTAR reckons that more than 90% of the population could handle a sub-orbital flight. Nor does Mr King see any reason why children as young as 5 or 6 could not go too.

2013-02-21: Mars tourists. You gotta wonder when the ambitions of a moderately wealthy (think 100Ms, not Bs) individual exceed the ambitions of all nations. Conclusion: things are run by luddite lawyers and the sooner people like Tito succeed, the sooner hope returns to humanity.

The Inspiration Mars Foundation, a newly formed nonprofit organization led by American space traveler and entrepreneur Dennis Tito plans to take advantage of a unique window of opportunity to launch an historic journey to Mars and back in 501 days, starting in January 2018.

2017-02-27: Moon Tourism

SpaceX has been approached to fly 2 private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. Spacex expects to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and Spacex expects more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results.

2018-09-17: Moon Junket

I choose to go to the Moon, with artists. If Pablo Picasso had been able to see the moon up-close, what kind of paintings would he have drawn? If John Lennon could have seen the curvature of the Earth, what kind of songs would he have written? If they had gone to space, how would the world have looked today? People are creative and have a great imagination. We all have the ability to dream dreams that have never been dreamt, to sing songs that have never been sung, to paint that which has never been seen before. I hope that this project will inspire the dreamer within each of us. Together with Earth’s top artists, I will be heading to the moon… just a little earlier than everyone else. I am truly blessed by this opportunity to become Host Curator of “#dearMoon”. I would like to thank Elon Musk and SpaceX for creating the opportunity to go around the moon in their BFR. I would also like to thank all those who have continuously supported me. I vouch to make this project a success. Stay tuned!

2019-02-01: Commercial Human Space

Let’s start with low-key suborbital space tourism, of the type Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin would like to offer. Some economists see this as fairly feasible: If we know 1 thing about the world, it’s that some subset of the population will always have too much money and will get to spend it on cool things unattainable for the plebs. If such flights become routine, though, their price could go down, and space tourism could follow the trajectory of the commercial aviation industry, which used to be for the wealthy and is now home to Spirit Airlines. Some also speculate that longer, orbital flights—and sleepovers in cushy 6-star space hotels (the extra star is for the space part)—could follow.

After there’s a market for space hotels, more infrastructure could follow. And if you’re going to build something for space, it might be easier and cheaper to build it in space, with materials from space, rather than spending billions to launch all the materials you need. Maybe moon miners and manufacturers could establish a proto-colony, which could lead to some people living there permanently.

2019-08-23: Von Braun Station

The Goal of Gateway Foundation Von Braun Station is to build a dual-use station that is economically self-sustaining. They plan a larger Gateway Spaceport with 11M cubic meters of pressurized volume versus 931 meters for the International space station. This would be a 12000x larger volume.