Sentences with phrase «space tourism industry»

Indeed, Rutan just may have opened the door for an entire space tourism industry, as other entrepreneurs and even NASA seem eager to capitalize on the X-Prize excitement to advance their own ambitious space - travel plans.

Though the idea may sound out of this world, the nascent space tourism industry is set to take off in the next decade, and humans will need a way to pay for things in space as well as send payments to Earth, said PayPal President David Marcus.

But the guest of honor at the conference was astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who shared his excitement about the growing space tourism industry and PayPal's involvement in helping develop a payment infrastructure.

If that impediment were removed, or greatly reduced, we'd have a thriving space tourism industry.

Christian Frei's Space Tourists profiles the booming space tourism industry.

According to researchers, the budding space tourism industry may be mooning efforts to slow climate change by blasting extra soot, or black carbon, from rocket engines high into the atmosphere.

LAUNCHING a space tourism industry was never going to be an easy ride, as the recent crash of Virgin Galactic's VSS Enterprise proved.

The momentum building behind the space tourism industry does not seem affected by the July industrial explosion that killed three employees of Scaled Composites, the leading private spacecraft manufacturer.

Similarly, he suggests, the space tourism industry that will arise as a result of the Ansari X Prize could one day be worth up to $ 1.5 billion a year.