It’s been said that, within our lifetime, booking a trip to outer space could be as easy as buying a plane ticket to Europe. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is already advertising orbital flights for the ultrarich. The next frontier, for some entrepreneurs, is the moon. It’s been over fifty years since humans set foot on its surface, but a Jetsons-esque world of lunar hotels, commercial space walks, and rover rides might not be so far away. We asked Chris Lewicki, a former NASA engineer whose company, gravityLab, tests how human activities would function off planet, what’s next for space tourism.
What can tourists actually do when they get to space?
