Space Tourism Society
The Space Tourism Society (STS) was founded in 1996. It is the first organization specifically focused on the space tourism industry.
Their stated goals, quoted from their website, are:
"To conduct the research, build public desire.
Acquire the financial and political power to make space tourism available to as many people as possible as soon as possible."
STS has chapters in Japan, Norway, Canada, Malaysia, India, Russia, and the United Kingdom, and is an organization member of the Alliance for Space Development.[1] The STS is a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the USA.
History
As of July 2013, the president of the society, John Spencer, is designing a 91 metres (300 ft) space yacht aimed for cruising in Earth orbit.[2]
References
- ASD Members, Alliance for Space Development, retrieved March 4, 2015
- Dietrich-Egensteiner, Will (2013-07-23). "Here's What Your $5 Billion Space Yacht Could Look Like". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
Further reading
- The Popular Science Monthly
- Feasibility Study and Future Projections of Suborbital Space Tourism at the Example of Virgin Galactic by Matthias Otto
- Space tourism: do you want to go? by John Spencer and Karen L. Rugg
- Space enterprise: living and working offworld in the 21st century by Philip Robert Harris
- Worldwide Destinations and Companion Book of Cases Set by =Brian G. Boniface and Chris Cooper
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