Engineering

Commercial Human Spaceflight

Editorial: Nova Science Publishers

ISBN: 9798895301760

Pub: 2024-10-10

The number of commercial launch and reentry operations carrying humans is a small proportion of the overall number of commercial space operations—about 10 percent in 2023—but it is growing. Currently, private companies hope to create a market for commercial human spaceflight. In addition to contracts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support federal missions, companies such as SpaceX plan to transport private citizens into space. Other companies such as Axiom Space are developing orbital platforms with the intent to host both government astronauts and tourists in space.