New space vehicles for future space tourism Tourism essay
Price: 4, passenger. This Vienna, Va.-based company, owned by space tourism company Space Adventures, offers passengers the chance to experience different states of microgravity. The trip to the International Space Station with passenger, Dennis Tito, brought a sudden reality to space tourism. Tito showed the world, and especially NASA, that a civilian-trained astronaut could easily take on the rigors of space travel. In addition, his journey confirmed the findings of several space tourists, NASA WikimediaCommons. The VSS Unity spacecraft is one of the ships Virgin Galactic plans to use for space travel. AP Photo Matt Hartman. The first space tourist took off on board years ago.