Editing Space tourism (section)

=== Canceled projects ===
* In 2004, [[Bigelow Aerospace]] established a competition called [[America's Space Prize]], which offered a $50&nbsp;million prize to the first US company to create a reusable spacecraft capable of carrying passengers to a Nautilus space station. The prize expired in January 2010 without anyone making a serious effort to win it.<ref>{{cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |title=Bigelow still thinks big |url=http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1719/1 |website=The Space Review |date=November 1, 2010 |access-date=July 29, 2012 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120707091051/http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1719/1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The Space Island Group proposed having 20,000 people on their "space island" by 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spaceislandgroup.com/sig-vision.html |title=The Space Island Group's Mission |website=Space Island Group |access-date=April 30, 2013 |archive-date=April 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427100548/http://www.spaceislandgroup.com/sig-vision.html }}</ref>
* A United States startup firm, Orion Span announced during the early part of 2018 that it planned to launch and position a luxury space hotel in orbit within several years.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.space.com/40226-aurora-station-luxury-space-hotel-photos.html|title=A Space Hotel in Images: Orion Span's Luxury Aurora Station|work=Space.com|access-date=October 16, 2018|archive-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017042939/https://www.space.com/40226-aurora-station-luxury-space-hotel-photos.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Aurora Space Station]], the name of the hotel, would have offered guests (at most six individuals) 12 days of staying in a pill-shaped space hotel for $9.5&nbsp;million. The hotel's cabins would have measured approximately 12.9 metres (43 feet) by 4.8 metres (14 feet) in width.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://qz.com/1247091/orion-span-claims-its-luxury-space-hotel-will-open-to-its-first-guests-in-2022/|title=Orion Span claims its 'luxury space hotel' will open to its first guests in 2022 – Quartz|website=Quartz|date=April 9, 2018 |access-date=October 16, 2018|archive-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017082143/https://qz.com/1247091/orion-span-claims-its-luxury-space-hotel-will-open-to-its-first-guests-in-2022/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Space Adventures Crew Dragon mission]]: [[Space Adventures]] and [[SpaceX]] planned to send up to four tourists to low Earth orbit for a few days in late 2021 or early 2022. In October 2021, Space Adventures stated that the mission contract had expired, though the possibility of a future partnership with SpaceX was left open.<ref>{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Anastasia |url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/us-firm-sees-%27exciting%27-moment-as-space-tourism-booms1 |title=U.S. firm sees 'exciting' moment as space tourism booms |work=[[Japan Today]] |date=October 18, 2021 |access-date=October 18, 2021 |archive-date=October 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018211442/https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/us-firm-sees-%27exciting%27-moment-as-space-tourism-booms1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Galactic Suite Design]]
* [[Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station]]
* [[Space Industries Incorporated]]
* [[Space Islands]]