Space Tourism News Update

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 17th 2006 at 3:01PM

Space tourism is getting bigger and bigger. Space Adventures, which was the first company to run commercial orbital space flight, has signed up with Prodea, a private investment firm that sponsored the Ansari X prize, to develop a fleet of suborbital spaceflight vehicles for commercial use globally. The goal of the venture is to create turnkey space tourism systems involving the delivery of suborbital launch vehicles to multiple global locations. The Explorer will take up to five people to space.

Also in space news, Aero-News Network reports that the New Mexico legislature has approved $110 million for the new spaceport that may be the hub of U.S. space tourism.

Tags: orbital flight, space adventures, space port, space tourism, SpaceAdventures, suborbital flight