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, 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. It is an organization member of the Alliance for Space Development.
History
, the president of the society, John Spencer, is designing a space yacht aimed at cruising in Earth orbit.
See also
Commercial Astronaut
Private spaceflight
Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination
References
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