Editing Space tourism (section)

== Tourism beyond Earth orbit ==
{{Further|Tourism on the Moon}}
[[File:SpaceX Mars tourism poster for Phobos and Deimos.jpg|thumb|Artist conception of a Mars tourism poster, made by [[SpaceX]]]]

=== Ongoing projects ===
* A mission with a similar flight profile is planned to have the same flight profile as the now cancelled Dearmoon project, with [[Dennis Tito]] and his wife Akiko Tito as two of the passengers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/dennis-tito-and-wife-to-be-on-second-starship-flight-around-the-moon/|title=Dennis Tito and wife to be on second Starship flight around the moon|last=Foust|first=Jeff|newspaper=[[SpaceNews]]|date=October 12, 2022|access-date=January 29, 2023|archive-date=May 30, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530001222/https://spacenews.com/dennis-tito-and-wife-to-be-on-second-starship-flight-around-the-moon/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Space Adventures]] Ltd. have announced that they are working on [[DSE-Alpha]], a circumlunar mission to the Moon, with the price per passenger being $100,000,000.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gilman |first=Victoria |title=$100 Million Moon Trip: Space Tourism's Hot Ticket? |date=August 10, 2005 |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0810_050810_moontrip.html |work=National Geographic News |access-date=December 10, 2006 |archive-date=December 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061210054311/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0810_050810_moontrip.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Cancelled projects ===
* [[Excalibur Almaz]] proposed to take three tourists in a flyby around the Moon, using modified [[Almaz]] space station modules, in a low-energy trajectory flyby around the Moon. The trip would last around 6 months.<ref name="economist1">{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/node/21557719 |title=Fly me to the moon |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=June 30, 2012 |access-date=August 21, 2015 |archive-date=August 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823063656/http://www.economist.com/node/21557719 |url-status=live }}</ref> However, their equipment was never launched and is to be converted into an educational exhibit.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Owen|first1=Jonathan|title=Shooting for the Moon: time called on Isle of Man space race|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/shooting-for-the-moon-time-called-on-isle-of-man-space-race-10101750.html|access-date=April 19, 2017|work=The Independent|date=March 11, 2015|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914034208/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/shooting-for-the-moon-time-called-on-isle-of-man-space-race-10101750.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[Golden Spike Company]] was an American [[space transport]] startup active from 2010 to 2013. The company held the objective to offer private commercial space transportation services to the [[lunar landing|surface of the Moon]]. The company's website was quietly taken offline in September 2015.
* The [[Inspiration Mars Foundation]] is an American nonprofit organization founded by [[Dennis Tito]] that proposed to launch a crewed mission to [[Planetary flyby|flyby]] [[Mars]] in January 2018,<ref name=Borenstein>{{cite news |title=Tycoon wants to send married couple on Mars flyby |first=Seth |last=Borenstein |url=http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130227/DA4N93K83.html |newspaper=Excite |agency=Associated Press |date=February 27, 2013 |access-date=March 3, 2013 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185156/http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130227/DA4N93K83.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Boucher>{{cite news |title=The First Human Mission to Mars in 2018 (Updated) |first=Marc |last=Boucher |url=http://spaceref.com/mars/the-first-human-mission-to-mars-in-2018.html |work=SpaceRef |date=February 20, 2013 |access-date=February 28, 2013 |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411204327/http://spaceref.com/mars/the-first-human-mission-to-mars-in-2018.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Sonnenberg>{{cite news |title=Millionaire space tourist planning 'historic journey' to Mars in 2018 |first=Max |last=Sonnenberg |url=http://thespacereporter.com/2013/02/millionaire-space-tourist-planning-historic-journey-to-mars-in-2018/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226090920/http://thespacereporter.com/2013/02/millionaire-space-tourist-planning-historic-journey-to-mars-in-2018/ |archive-date=February 26, 2013 |newspaper=The Space Reporter |date=February 23, 2013 |url-status=usurped |access-date=February 28, 2013 }}</ref> or 2021 if they missed the first deadline.<ref name="parabolicarc.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/11/20/dennis-titos-prepared-remarks-congress-human-mars-mission/ |title=Dennis Tito's Prepared Remarks Before Congress on Human Mars Mission at Parabolic Arc |publisher=Parabolicarc.com |date=November 20, 2013 |access-date=December 7, 2013 |archive-date=September 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910061015/http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/11/20/dennis-titos-prepared-remarks-congress-human-mars-mission/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Their website became defunct by late 2015 but it is archived by the [[Internet Archive]].<ref name="web.archive.org">{{cite web|url=http://inspirationmars.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013012955/http://inspirationmars.org/ |archive-date=October 13, 2015|url-status=usurped |title=The Foundation}}</ref> The Foundation's future plans are unclear.
* [[Bigelow Aerospace]] planned to extend their successes with the ''Genesis'' modules by launching the [[B330]], an expandable habitation module with 330 cubic meters of internal space, aboard a [[Vulcan (rocket)|Vulcan rocket]]. The Vulcan was contracted to boost BA 330 to low lunar orbit by the end of 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulalaunch.com/bigelow-aerospace-and-ula-lunar-depot.aspx |title=Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance Announce Agreement to Place a B330 Habitat in Low Lunar Orbit |date=October 17, 2017 |access-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-date=January 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115180245/http://www.ulalaunch.com/bigelow-aerospace-and-ula-lunar-depot.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In February 2017, [[Elon Musk]] announced that substantial deposits from two individuals had been received by [[SpaceX]] for a Moon loop flight using a [[free return trajectory]] and that this could happen as soon as late 2018.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 27, 2017 |title=SpaceX to fly tourists around Moon |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39111030 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180520020028/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-39111030 |archive-date=May 20, 2018 |access-date=October 27, 2017 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Musk said that the cost of the mission would be "comparable" to that of sending an astronaut to the International Space Station, about US$70&nbsp;million in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Yuhas |first=Alan |date=February 28, 2017 |title=SpaceX to send two people around the moon who paid for a 2018 private mission |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/27/spacex-moon-private-mission-2018-elon-musk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301005838/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/27/spacex-moon-private-mission-2018-elon-musk |archive-date=March 1, 2017 |access-date=March 2, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> In February 2018, Musk announced that the Falcon Heavy rocket would not be used for crewed missions.<ref name="SpaceNews">{{cite web |last=Foust |first=Jeff |date=February 6, 2018 |title=SpaceX no longer planning crewed missions on Falcon Heavy |url=http://spacenews.com/spacex-no-longer-planning-crewed-missions-on-falcon-heavy/ |access-date=February 6, 2018 |newspaper=[[SpaceNews]]}}</ref><ref name="wsj.com">{{cite news |last1=Pasztor |first1=Andy |title=Elon Musk Says SpaceX's New Falcon Heavy Rocket Unlikely to Carry Astronauts |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-says-spacexs-new-falcon-heavy-rocket-unlikely-to-carry-astronauts-1517876582?mod=rss_Technology |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206172108/https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-says-spacexs-new-falcon-heavy-rocket-unlikely-to-carry-astronauts-1517876582?mod=rss_Technology |archive-date=February 6, 2018 |access-date=February 6, 2018 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref> The proposal changed in 2018 to use the [[SpaceX Starship|Starship]] launch system instead.<ref name="grush" /><ref name="SpaceNews" /><ref name="wsj.com" /> In September 2018, Musk revealed the passenger for the trip, [[Yusaku Maezawa]] during a livestream. Yusaku Maezawa described the plan for his trip in further detail, dubbed the #[[dearMoon project]], intended to take 6–8 artists with him on the journey to inspire the artists to create new art.