Building up a new market for suborbital spaceflight | The Space Review

By Jeff Foust, Author/Editor, Posted 12/07/09

Link: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1525/1

"...Space tourism isn’t the only market [suborbital space} vehicles can serve. The same vehicles that can give paying customers the ride of a lifetime can also serve as testbeds for scientific research, technology demonstration, and even education. These potential applications had been largely overshadowed by space tourism in recent years, deemed to be secondary markets—and certainly not as novel or glamorous as space tourism. However, in the last year there has been growing interest in these fields, to the point that one advocate for them believes that they might become bigger markets than even tourism."