Tagged: space tourism

Virgin Galactic delays launch of space tourism service

Virgin Galactic has delayed the commercial launch of its sub-orbital space tourism service due to “escalating supply chain and labor constraints.”
The company said that rather than launching the service toward the end of this year as it had planned, it…

Watch the splashdown of NASA’s first private ISS mission

NASA’s first private mission to the International Space Station has ended successfully after the four-person crew splashed down in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida.
The four Ax-1 crewmembers — Canadian investor and philanthropist M…

Ax-1 space tourism mission needs good weather to launch

NASA is about to send its first private astronauts — also known as space tourists — to the International Space Station.
Canadian investor and philanthropist Mark Pathy, American entrepreneur Larry Connor, and former Israeli Air Force pilot Eytan Stibbe…

NASA’s first space tourism mission to ISS delayed

The launch of NASA’s first space tourism flight to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed by two days and is now set to launch on Friday, April 8.
Texas-based Axiom Space, which is organizing the Ax-1 mission in partnership with SpaceX,…

How to watch NASA’s first space tourism launch to the ISS

NASA is about to embark on its first space tourism mission to the International Space Station (ISS), and you can watch the entire event as it happens.

Organized by Texas-based Axiom Space and using SpaceX hardware, the 10-day mission will launch from…

Blue Origin video shows first space tourism launch of 2022

Blue Origin has shared a video showing highlights from its first space tourism mission of 2022.

The six passengers — a mix of business people and specialists in the space industry — took their seats inside a capsule atop Blue Origin’s suborbital New S…