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Space tourism: Trip of a lifetime

Who hasn't looked up at the stars and wondered what it must be like to travel through space? Only a fortunate few have made the trip, and at enormous cost. But soon, the excitement and adventure may be within reach of many more of us.

Bigelow gambles on private space station

The Genesis-1 module orbiting the Earth not only transmits its temperature, integrity, power levels and overall health -- it also signals entrepreneurial zeal and private sector spunk.

Fortune: Going Long One thing stands in the way of a thriving private space industry: finding a cheap way to get there. It ain't for lack

There is no use having a universe if there is no one to see it. That is our job. --Ray Bradbury, Space Frontier Foundation Conference, 1999

Fortune: Entrepreneurs Looking Up Why those in the business of tourism think outer space is travel's final frontier.

Thirty years after Alan Shepard's lunar tee shot, entrepreneurs in the earthly business of tourism are looking up toward that back nine in the sky. Forget the right stuff--all tourists need is abou...

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