Over the past few decades, several people have paid a lot of money to go to space. These people are often called "space tourists" or "spaceflight participants" and stay in orbit for several days or for several minutes during suborbital spaceflights. A suborbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it does not complete one orbital revolution. SpaceShipOne, developed by Scaled Composites, was the first private spacecraft to take pilots into space for several minutes. Today, companies such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic offer short-term space travel for a fee. In this overview you can learn all about the different people who went to space for a short time during suborbital spaceflights!
Over the past few decades, several people have paid a lot of money to go to space. These people are often called "space tourists" or "spaceflight participants" and stay in orbit for several days. There are several different types of space tourism, including orbital, suborbital and lunar space tourism. Between 2001 and 2010, seven space tourists made eight orbital spaceflights aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, organized by the American space tourism company and travel agency Space Adventures. In September 2021, SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission kicked off the company’s orbital tourism program by bringing four space tourists into space. In this overview you can learn all about the different people who paid to go to space for a short stay in orbit!