Space tourists, like their terrestrial counterparts, will use discretionary funds to travel and visit destinations that remove them from everyday life. Regardless of whether they pay for a suborbital flight or a trip to Titan, in each case spaceflight participants will be paying for the experience, an experience which will almost always require a significant infrastructure to support and which only the commercialization of space can accomplish.
Commercial applications of space tourism
2008-01-01
8 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Federal Aviation Administration , Cruise Ship , International Space Station , Motion Sickness , Orbital Space Medicine/Public Health, general , Astronomy, Observations and Techniques , Physics and Astronomy , Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Popular Science in Astronomy
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