What does it cost?
Every operator, every price tier — sourced and dated.
Price Index →Can I actually go?
Budget, age, and health requirements.
Eligibility guide →Not going to space yet?
Explore the night sky from your backyard.
See Space Now guides →Who’s flying now?
Flying, grounded, or returning — live.
See the board →A seat to space used to cost a fortune. It’s in freefall.
Commercial spaceflight has gotten dramatically cheaper — and it’s still falling.
Who’s flying right now
All 12 operator statuses were re-verified against their sources on September 7, 2026. Each card is also stamped with its own re-check date, so you can see how current every row is — not just the page.
Ask anyone who’s been.
There is a name for what happens at the window — the overview effect, coined by the writer Frank White in 1987. You stop seeing a map of countries and start seeing one planet. Person after person comes back describing it as the part of the trip they were least prepared for.
“What you have given me is the most profound experience. I am so filled with emotion.”
“I’ve been waiting a long time to finally get up there… I could always beat the guys on what they were doing, because I was always stronger.”
“That last view of the Earth from the cupola made me emotional… and I knew I’d be thinking about that for the rest of my life.”
For sixty years, space belonged to governments and billionaires. That just changed.
The price of a seat has fallen from tens of millions to the low hundreds of thousands. More than 700 people have already flown. Commercial stations, lunar loops, and a wave of new operators are under construction right now. The industry didn’t inch forward — it crossed a line. Outer Space Trip tracks both ends of it: what a seat costs today, and what you can see from your own backyard tonight.
What a seat costs
Four Tiers of Space Tourism
From minutes of weightlessness to months on Mars — here’s what the market looks like in 2026.
Suborbital Flights
VG returns Feb 20273–4 minutes of weightlessness above the Kármán Line. Blue Origin’s New Shepard and Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo carried civilian passengers from 2021 — but Blue Origin paused New Shepard for at least two years in early 2026, leaving Virgin Galactic’s next-generation Delta service, expected in February 2027, as the nearer-term return.
Orbital Missions
BookableDays or weeks orbiting Earth aboard the ISS or a private station. Axiom Space has completed four crewed ISS missions; SpaceX Crew Dragon enables private astronaut programs — the premium tier of current space tourism.
Lunar Experiences
Coming late 2020sFlyby missions around the Moon and eventual surface excursions. NASA’s Artemis program is returning humans to the lunar surface. Private lunar tourism packages are entering pre-booking stages for the late 2020s.
Mars Glamping
Early 2030sSpaceX’s Starship is designed for point-to-point Earth travel and eventual Mars missions. The first crewed Mars flights are targeting the early 2030s — and the tourism industry will follow within the decade.
Experience Space Today
You don’t need a rocket — or a fortune. Real space experiences you can have right now, from a free launch view to floating in zero gravity.
Explore all experiences →The gear that opens the sky
You don’t need a rocket — or a fortune. A $90 pair of binoculars shows Jupiter’s moons tonight. Here’s the gear actually worth the money, honestly reviewed.
Space Tourism Headlines
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