TechSpace tourism’s last, best hope rolls onto an Arizona runway

Five years ago, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic were flying inexperienced customers on suborbital trips, while private citizens also reached orbit aboard SpaceX’s Dragon. Now US space tourism has gone 10 months without a mission: New Shepard is paused, SpaceX has flown its final free-flyer Dragon mission, and Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity has been grounded for more than two years.

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