Space Tourism

NSS deeply regrets the tragic loss of SpaceShipTwo on October 31 and extends it's heartfelt sympathy to the families involved and to everyone who worked in this program.

The process of creating a successful off-world tourism industry will be the key economic and technological driver enabling the human species to evolve into a real Solar System Species.

SpaceShipOne [showed that] space travel was no longer just the domain of prohibitively expensive government programs subject to political whim. Now it was just like any other business that could be developed into a thriving industry. From Rocketeers .

The sheer beauty of it just brought tears to my eyes. If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth.

Anousheh Ansari. Iranian-American space tourist who flew to the International Space Station in September 2006.