Commercial Space Stations: A New Era in Orbital Tourism
Commercial Space Stations: A New Era in Orbital Tourism

Author(s): Aileen Rabsahl, Árpád Papp-Váry
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Commercial space stations; Orbital tourism; Space tourism
Summary/Abstract: As commercial space tourism is growing in popularity, the demand for commercial destinations in space is also rising. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to examine this new area of commercial space habitats in low Earth orbit by investigating the development of commercial space stations as a key factor for the shift from governmental-owned space stations to commercial contractors. This development is investigated by analyzing literature about the past six decades of human space flight as well as specialized literature for commercial space tourism. Together, these methods have been used to investigate two formulated hypotheses regarding commercialization and its impact on low Earth orbit space habitats.

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