Anousheh Ansari

JACKSONVILLE -- Roughly $200,000 could get you to space via Cecil Field if the Jacksonville Aviation Authority succeeds in making the airport a commercial spaceport.  

Many people have heard of Space Tourism, Space Commercialization and Space industrialization, but now there's Space Sportilization - the intersection of space, sports and entertainment.  

POWAY ---- Shares of SpaceDev Inc. rose 19 percent Monday after the space technology company announced a $15 million contract to help build a rocket engine for a commercial space tourism vehicle.  

I met Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto in Star City, Russia, in August 2006. Enomoto, 37, is slight with tired eyes and a shock of bleach-blond dyed hair. His idea of space travel comes from comic books and Star Wars . He grew up as a self-described otaku , coding his own computer games and dreaming of...  

Kottayam, Aug 9 ; Santhosh George Kulangara, country’s first space tourist designate, has successfully completed the Gravity Tolerance Training held at the National Aero Space Training and Research (NASTAR) Centre at Southampton in Philadelphia on July 31 and August 1.  

The world's next space tourist says he will be spending the bulk of his fortune to rocket into orbit this autumn. Richard Garriott, a computer game wizard, will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station.  

The world's next space tourist says he'll be spending the bulk of his fortune to rocket into orbit this fall. Richard Garriott, a computer game wizard, will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station.  

Intel project engineer Morris Jarvis is designing his own spacecraft called Hermes to take space tourists to the edge of the atmosphere.  

SpaceDev, Inc. announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract with Scaled Composites to assist Scaled in the development of a production rocket motor for the first commercial space vehicle designed for space tourism called SpaceShipTwo. The vehicle is being designed by Scaled for Virgin...  

More and more, mainstream space tourism is becoming a real possibility in my lifetime. And though some people are ready to pack their bags for the moon right now, I'm quite comfortable with vacation options that are limited to this planet, thank you very much.  

The space tourism company Galactic Suite already has 38 reservations made by tourists who, the company says, in 2012 will travel on board a magnetically levitated spacecraft to an orbiting luxury hotel, complete with a floating spa, pictured here. The trip, which costs 3 million Euros, will...