The Space Tourism Society (STS) was founded in 1996. It is the first organization specifically focused on the space tourism

Space tourism

Space Tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, hoping to create a space tourism industry...

 industry.

Their stated goals, quoted from their website:

"To conduct the research,

build public desire,

and acquire the financial and political power

to make space tourism available

to as many people as possible

as soon as possible."

STS has chapters in Japan, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

The STS is a California 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in the USA. STS aims to provide the vision and voice for the evolution of humanity off-world in a humane, fun, and beautiful direction. STS was created to inspire people to build real products for future use in space.

See also

• Commercial Astronaut
  Commercial Astronaut
  A commercial astronaut is a person trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a privately funded spacecraft.-Criteria:The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The FAI defines spaceflight as any flight over of altitude...
  
  
• Private spaceflight
  Private spaceflight
  Private spaceflight is flight above Earth altitude conducted by and paid for by an entity other than a government. In the early decades of the Space Age, the government space agencies of the Soviet Union and United States pioneered space technology augmented by collaboration with affiliated design...
  
  
• Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination
  Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination
  The Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination was a proposed "space currency" created as a viral marketing campaign launched by Travelex with the London-based public relations and advertising firm, talkPR. The full name is a backronym from 'quid', a slang term for the British Pound...
  
  

External links

• Space tourism Society