Space Tourism Society
Topic: Organization
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The Space Tourism Society is a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 1996 by John Spencer, a former member of the board of directors of the National Space Society,[1] with the goal of promoting space tourism.
Their stated goal, as quoted from their website, is: "To conduct the research, build public desire, and acquire the financial and political power to make space tourism available to as many people as possible, as soon as possible."
The STS is based in the US and has chapters in Japan , Norway , Canada , Malaysia, India , Russia , and the United Kingdom .[citation needed] It is an organization member of the Alliance for Space Development.[2]
History
As of July 2013[update], the president of the society, John Spencer, is designing a 91 metres (300 ft) space yacht aimed at cruising in Earth orbit.[3]
See also
- Commercial Astronaut
- Private spaceflight
- Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination
References
- ↑ "John Spencer Biography - National Space Society" (in en-US). 2017-08-03. https://space.nss.org/john-spencer-biography/.
- ↑ ASD Members, Alliance for Space Development, 26 January 2015, http://allianceforspacedevelopment.org/alliance-groups/, retrieved March 4, 2015
- ↑ Dietrich-Egensteiner, Will (2013-07-23). "Here's What Your $5 Billion Space Yacht Could Look Like". Popular Mechanics. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/news/heres-what-your-5-billion-space-yacht-could-look-like-15724183.
Further reading
- The Popular Science Monthly
- Feasibility Study and Future Projections of Suborbital Space Tourism at the Example of Virgin Galactic by Matthias Otto
- Space tourism: do you want to go? by John Spencer and Karen L. Rugg
- Space enterprise: living and working offworld in the 21st century by Philip Robert Harris
- Worldwide Destinations and Companion Book of Cases Set by =Brian G. Boniface and Chris Cooper
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