"We started with what we believed would be an optimal customer experience and then we built the spaceship around it."

Virgin Galactic unveils sleek spaceship cabin for tourist flights

Rocket Man

In a sleek announcement video, Virgin Galactic has unveiled the cabin interior of its SpaceShipTwo space plane, a vehicle designed for space tourism.

Virgin Galactic Unveils Sleek Spaceship Cabin for Tourist Flights

"It is the rocket ride of your life."

"A private citizen completing a spacewalk would be another huge step forward in private spaceflight.”

Russia says it's sending two tourists to the International Space Station, including a spacewalk

Spacecation

After Russia halted its orbital space tourism program in 2010, the country's space agency Roscosmos is planning to send two citizens to the ISS in 2023.

Russia Says It’s Sending Two Tourists to the International Space Station, Including a Spacewalk

This would be the first time a private citizen has ever stepped outside a spacecraft and into the void.

A ticket will cost upwards of $50 million, a "bargain" according to the CEO.

NASA is adding a space hotel to the space station

Expensive Selfie

NASA announced on Monday that it has chosen private space station manufacturer Axiom Space to build the first space hotel for the ISS.

NASA Is Adding a Space Hotel to the Space Station

Space hotel CEO: "It's a bargain!"

More launches means more climate-destroying CO2 in the atmosphere.

The toll casual space tourism will take on the planet (Updated)

Cost of Travel

Space companies trying to make off-world tourism a thing will likely cause major environmental destruction in the process as spaceflight ramps up.

The Toll Casual Space Tourism Will Take on the Planet (Updated)

Increased rocket launches will be environmentally catastrophic.

And for $250,000 apiece, we can't afford not to go.

Virgin Galactic's plan: send tourists to space every 32 hours

VIP Access

Virgin Galactic plans to start selling tickets to space next year. By 2023, it will launch a shuttlefull of space tourists every 32 hours.

Virgin Galactic’s Plan: Send Tourists to Space Every 32 Hours

If every flight is fully booked, more than 3,000 people would launch into space in the next few years.

Anyone looking to buy a $85 million penthouse?

This luxury apartment comes with two free tickets to space

Penthouse Perk

The buyer of a $85 million penthouse in Manhattan will get a slew of perks to go with it, including a Hamptons mansion, a yacht, and two tickets to space.

This Luxury Apartment Comes With Two Free Tickets to Space

The path to space might run through Manhattan.

The stakes are enormously high in an actual space mission.

Luxurious space hotel will import water instead of recycling pee

Space Case

A planned space hotel will import its own water from Earth, so that guests won't be forced to drink recycled urine like on the International Space Station.

Luxurious Space Hotel Will Import Water Instead of Recycling Pee

"At the moment space tourism is a field where reality, hoaxes, and science fiction are mixed up."

SpaceX Starship and The Von Braun Rotating Space Station

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical.

Watch this epic "trailer" for the commercial lunar space station

Space Station

The Gateway Foundation showed off its latest vision of the future: the Von Braun Rotating Space Station.

Watch This Epic “Trailer” for the Commercial Lunar Space Station

It could house both space agencies and a Hilton space hotel.

All the good vacations require three months of training.

Upcoming space hotel to be "like a small cruise ship"

Checking In

Orion Span's proposed space hotel, the Aurora Space Station, might be ready within two years. But its cost jumped $3 million since April.

Upcoming Space Hotel to Be “Like a Small Cruise Ship”

26 people have paid the $80,000 deposit for a stay.

Founder Richard Branson is "pretty confident" it'll happen.

Virgin Galactic will send people to space by Christmas. Maybe.

Anything's Possible

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is "reasonably confident" his company will complete its first crewed spaceflights before Christmas.

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