Copyright & Licensing

Some of what we publish is free for anyone to reuse, and some of it is not. The split is deliberate, so this page states it plainly rather than making you guess.

The short version

• Our datasets are yours to use. The price index, the flight log, and the eclipse calendar are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Take them, chart them, build on them. Just credit us.
• Our writing and our own photographs are not. Articles, guides, essays, and the pictures we take ourselves are all rights reserved. Quote a passage with credit and a link, as any publication would — but republishing a piece, in whole or in substantial part, needs our permission first.

1. Data — CC BY 4.0, and we would like you to use it

We spend real time compiling and verifying these, and we publish them openly because a number nobody can check is worth very little. All three are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International:

• Space Tourism Price Index — per-seat prices and operator status, maintained weekly.
• Space Tourism Flight Timeline — a dated, sourced record of space tourism and private-astronaut spaceflight.
• Upcoming Eclipses — solar and lunar eclipse dates, types, and visibility regions through 2030.

CC BY 4.0 lets you copy, redistribute, adapt, and build on the data for any purpose, including commercially. The one condition is attribution: credit Outer Space Trip, link back to the source page, and note if you changed anything.

A citation that satisfies it:

Outer Space Trip. (2026). Space Tourism Price Index (updated August 2026). Retrieved from https://outerspacetrip.com/guides/space-tourism-price-index/

A note on what the licence covers. Underlying facts — a launch date, a ticket price, the time of an eclipse — are not ours and cannot be owned by anyone. What we license to you is the compilation: the selection, verification, structure, and maintenance that turns scattered facts into a dataset you can rely on. Where we cite an outside source, that source deserves credit too.

2. Articles, guides, and essays — all rights reserved

Everything we write is protected by copyright from the moment it is published. That includes the guides, the essays in Stories, our product recommendations and the reasoning behind them, and the editorial judgments that go into how we rank and compare things.

You are welcome to: quote a passage with attribution and a link, cite us as a source, link to any page, and share our work.

Please ask first before: republishing an article in full or in substantial part, translating one, adapting one into another format, or reproducing our comparison tables and pick selections as your own.

We say yes to reasonable requests more often than not. Email us and ask.

3. Photographs — check whose they are

Images on this site come from three different places and carry three different sets of rules. This matters, because taking an image from our pages is not the same as licensing it from whoever owns it.

• Our own photographs — credited "Rob Crotzer / Outer Space Trip." All rights reserved. Ask us.
• Public-domain imagery — mostly NASA and other U.S. government sources. Free for you to use, but get it from the original source, and credit the photographer as the source does.
• Licensed and permissioned imagery — Creative Commons images from organisations such as ESO and ESA, and manufacturer photography we use with written permission. Our permission does not extend to you. If you want one of these, go to the owner. Credit lines on each image name them.

4. Search engines and AI assistants

We want to be found, quoted, and cited, and our robots.txt is open to search and AI crawlers on purpose. If our work informs an answer, we ask for what we would ask of any publication: name us, and link to the page.

5. Journalists and researchers

If you are working on a story, the datasets above are free to use under CC BY 4.0, and we are glad to answer questions, confirm a figure, or explain how we arrived at one. Written replies, usually the same day. Email inquiries@outerspacetrip.com.

6. If something here is wrong

If you believe we have used your work incorrectly, credited you wrongly, or published something we should not have, tell us and we will fix it quickly. We would far rather correct an error than argue about one.

To ask about reuse, request permission, or report a problem:

Outer Space Trip
Email: inquiries@outerspacetrip.com

This page describes how we license our own work. It is a plain-English summary, not legal advice.