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Space Tourism: 5 Companies who can take you on a tour to Space.

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Thinking of traveling to space for common citizens seems nearly impossible. but with the advancement of space travel in the near future, we might be spending our vacations in space looking at the sun, moons, planets, and other celestial bodies.  The concept of space tourism is one of the most exciting emerging features of human space travel. What is Space Tourism? Space Tourism simply means humans traveling into space for recreational purposes. it offers a paid tour to space by some commercial companies like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin which are developing spacecraft to take paying travelers beyond the earth's surface.  The first space tourist was US millionaire Dennis Tito, who in 2001 paid $20 million to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to visit the international space station and spent eight days there. space tourism covers spaceflights that are sub-orbital(reach lower space but are not powerful enough to enter Earth’s orbit), orbital(achieve orbital velocity ...