October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... vehicle assembly, astronaut training, zero-gravity scientific and medical experiments, microsatellite development, and space tourism. In August 2013, Houston’s City Council approved the formal pursuit of a commercial spaceport license from the FAA...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... B330 will have 330 cubic metres (12,000 cu/ ft) of internal space. The craft will support zero-gravity research including scientific missions, manufacturing processes, a destination for space tourism and a craft for missions destined for the Moon...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... applications - communications, broadcasting, weather forecasting, navigation, medicine, security and remote sensing - to embrace space tourism, space mining, space-based solar power, and the future settlement on the Moon and Mars. Along with this...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
..., in the relatively short term, many more humans will have the opportunity to go into space through the development of a commercial space ‘tourism’ industry, these risks translate not only to the problems associated with the destruction of important...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... spaceflight was actually with Virgin Galactic and suborbital space tourism. More broadly, I think the most important ...of years ago. Every one of us has talked about using space and space exploration to make life better for humans here on the planet ...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
... in the drafting of the UN, EU and COSPAR documents. In addition, some private economic entities (e.g. space industry, space tourism companies) have published what is more of a ‘code of professional responsibility’ than a specific ethical code...
