" Space Adventures Ltd., headquartered in Arlington, VA, with an office in Moscow, Russia, is a privately-owned company founded in 1997 by a team of aerospace and adventure travel experts.

The world's premier space tourism company, Space Adventures assisted with and facilitated the flight of the first space tourist to the International Space Station in April of 2001. Through its partnerships with the best in the commercial space industry, Space Adventures is also the only company developing a passenger sub-orbital space program, with flights to launch before 2005..." more

" The company was founded by an American entrepreneur who was offered the rare opportunity to fly a MiG-29 while in Moscow recruiting computer programmers for his software business. A case of “love at first flight”, he obtained the rights to market supersonic adventures worldwide and in October 1993, MIGS etc. was born.
In late 1995, the company was sold to an employee-lead ownership group. Offerings were expanded to include a variety of cosmonaut training programs. Feeling the “etc.” just couldn’t hold all the new adventure offerings, the company was rechristened Incredible Adventures, Inc. In January of 1996, controlling interest in the company was sold to Norman Fast, a venture capitalist with experience in the adventure travel industry.
Incredible Adventures/MIGS etc. has always been a favorite of the media. In addition to being featured on CNN, Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, PBS and the Discovery Channel, Incredible Adventures has appeared on major television networks in Italy, Germany, Ireland, England, Canada and Australia. Among the many publications to feature the company are Flying, Men’s Journal, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time and GQ..." more

" STS is clearly focused, with a long term overall view, and is evolving a strategic plan to introduce many new industries to realistic space tourism.

These include the travel and tourism industry, the financial community, the cruise ship and resort industry, and the entertainment industries.

STS believes that space tourism is the most logical endeavor for private enterprise to pursue towards the goal of expanding humankind into space..." more

"Virgin Galactic is a company established by Richard Branson's Virgin Group to undertake the challenge of developing space tourism for everybody.

Virgin Galactic will own and operate privately built spaceships, modelled on the history-making SpaceShipOne craft. These spaceships will allow affordable sub-orbital space tourism for the first time in our history.

Due to the unique technology developed by Burt Rutan, this space craft design has overcome the difficult issues of re-entry into the earth's atmosphere faced by so many designers trying to create efficient, re-usable space vehicles." ... more