Space Tourism: The Latest News, Features and Photos

Virgin Galactic customer Joanne Le Bon got a taste of weightlessness aboard a ZERO-G flight in September 2013.
Virgin Galactic customer Joanne Le Bon got a taste of weightlessness aboard a ZERO-G flight in September 2013. (Image credit: Steve Boxall)

Learn the latest news about space tourism and space tourist trips into outer space. Space.com looks at the growing business of space tourism. 

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Blue Origin launches 6 space tourists to the final frontier after last-minute crew swap (video)

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin launched six people to suborbital space today (Jan. 22). It was the 17th human spaceflight for the company, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.

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a small rocket carrying six people in a capsule lifts off, set against the rising sun

Watch Blue Origin launch 6 people to suborbital space today

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin will launch six people to the final frontier on Thursday (Jan. 22), and you can watch the space tourism mission live.

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a small rocket carrying six people in a capsule lifts off, set against the rising sun

Blue Origin launches 1st wheelchair user to space and back (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

Blue Origin launched wheelchair user Michi Benthaus and her NS-37 five crewmates aboard a New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.

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a white rocket lifts off from a desert launch site into the dawn sky

Blue Origin targeting Dec. 18 for historic 1st spaceflight of wheelchair user

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin is targeting Dec. 18 for its NS-37 suborbital launch, which will fly a wheelchair user to space for the first time ever.

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Michaela Benthaus has taken numerous parabolic flights carrying out unique accessibility experiments.

Blue Origin's next space tourism flight will break new ground for people with disabilities

By Leonard David published

Blue Origin's upcoming NS-37 space tourism launch has special significance: One of the passengers is Michi Benthaus, who will become the first wheelchair user in space.

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a white rocket lifts off from a desert launch site into the dawn sky

Next Blue Origin tourist launch will fly wheelchair user to space for 1st time

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin's next space tourist launch will make history, sending a wheelchair user to the final frontier for the first time.

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artist's illustration of a white rocket launching, in a top-down view from just above the payload fairing.

A new rocket, sea launches and more: Chinese company CAS Space is thinking big

By Andrew Jones published

CAS Space is preparing to launch its first liquid propellant rocket, the Kinetica 2, carrying a prototype cargo spacecraft — the latest sign of China's accelerating commercial launch sector.

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A white Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off with 6 passengers aboard.

Blue Origin launches 6 'Space Nomads,' including mystery passenger, on suborbital space tourist flight (video)

By Mike Wall published

Blue Origin launched its 15th space tourism mission today (Oct. 8), sending six people on a brief trip to the final frontier.

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Watch Blue Origin launch its 15th space tourism mission today

By Mike Wall last updated

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to launch its 15th space tourism mission on Wednesday morning (Oct. 8), and you can watch it live.

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a white rocket lifts off from a desert launch site into the dawn sky

Blue Origin reveals space tourists to launch on next New Shepard rocket

By Mike Wall published

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin just announced the passenger list for NS-36, the company's 15th space tourism launch.

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