Your Guide to Space Tourism
& Night Sky Exploration

Outer Space Trip helps you understand what it takes to travel to space: ticket prices, training, and the companies making commercial spaceflight real. While you plan for tomorrow, we'll help you explore the universe from your own backyard tonight.

A $150,000 suborbital seat and a $90 pair of binoculars are both ways into the same sky, and we cover both.

We cover commercial spaceflight the way travel magazines cover airlines: the companies, the prices, the destinations, and what the trip is actually like. We're not an operator, a government agency, or a trade journal — we're the consumer's side of the story, written for the people who want to follow it rather than for the aerospace industry.

About the Editor

Outer Space Trip is founded and edited by Rob Crotzer, who writes and maintains the site's operator cost guides and the Space Tourism Price Index. Rob tracks pricing and flight-status announcements from every major operator (Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Axiom Space, Space Adventures, and Space Perspective) and translates them into plain-English guides for prospective space travelers.

Rob's love of outer space began at a young age. He grew up on trips to Kennedy Space Center, made the local newspaper at age ten for building a robot, and went to a high school with its own observatory — where he watched Comet Hale-Bopp in the spring of 1997 and flew a simulated space mission with his classmates. In college he observed with an Orion SkyView 4.5-inch reflector (predecessor of the StarBlast 4.5 EQ). At his college observatory, working with a 20.5-inch telescope, he learned to run a CCD camera in 1999, the autumn a 9.9-centimeter camera in Colorado recorded the first exoplanet transit ever seen. His class went up to measure that same star, HD 209458 in Pegasus, and confirm the dip for themselves: a far-off sun dimming, just barely, as a planet crossed in front of it. He has written about that autumn and what the map of known planets looked like before and after it. After graduation and saving up a few bucks, he bought the 10-inch Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain he still owns today. The stargazing and telescope guides here are written from that experience: real gear, hauled outside, across a few decades of clear nights.

How we keep the numbers honest: every price and operating status on the site is tied to a published source and a verification date, and the price index is re-checked on a regular schedule so the figures reflect the current market rather than a one-time snapshot. When an operator pauses flights, changes a fare, or resumes service, the relevant guides are updated and the change is dated and sourced. The full method is laid out in how we pick and source. Spot something out of date? Email a correction to inquiries@outerspacetrip.com and we'll verify and fix it.

What We Cover

We're the complete guide to civilian space exploration: from stargazing tonight to tomorrow's spaceflights. Our guides cover three areas:

• Space Travel — the trips themselves: suborbital and orbital flights, Moon and Mars travel, future space hotels, and honest cost guides tracked in our Space Tourism Price Index.
• Experiences — what spaceflight is actually like, and where to touch it today: astronaut training, the feeling of launch and weightlessness, launch viewing, and Zero-G flights you can book.
• Astronomy & Stargazing — you don't have to wait for a ticket to explore space. Practical guides to stargazing and the best beginner telescopes, so you can see Saturn's rings tonight.

We don't try to out-scoop the breaking-news wires. We own the consumer, experiential angle: what it costs, how close we really are, and what it feels like, written with facts, optimism, and a little imagination.

Our Mission

Our mission is simple: explain commercial spaceflight in plain English. We cover what trips cost, who's flying, what the experience is like, and how to enjoy space from Earth tonight through stargazing and sky events. Whenever we publish prices, specifications, or timelines, we cite the source and note when we last verified them. When an operator pauses flights or changes a fare, the guides change and we say when.

The Domain Portfolio

Alongside the publication, we hold a portfolio of premium space-travel domain names, MarsGlamping.com, InterstellarTrip.com, and TourTheGalaxy.com among them; the full list is here. We started acquiring them because we believe the commercial space economy is in its earliest days, and the category-defining consumer names for it will be scarce. The publication and its audience always come first: a select few of these names are available to qualified buyers building for the same future, while the rest we hold as long-term strategic assets.

Contact

All inquiries (partnerships, affiliate programs, press, and domain sales) go to: inquiries@outerspacetrip.com

We read every email and respond to serious inquiries within 1–2 business days.

Legal

Outer Space Trip is an independent publishing operation. We are not affiliated with any space agency, launch provider, or publicly traded company. News content is aggregated from third-party RSS feeds; all original articles remain the property of their respective publishers. Some pages contain affiliate links; see our Privacy Policy for our affiliate and data practices.