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Space tourists, like their terrestrial counterparts, will use discretionary funds to travel and visit destinations that remove them from everyday life. Regardless of whether they pay for a suborbital flight or a trip to Titan, in each case spaceflight participants will be paying for the experience, an experience which will almost always require a significant infrastructure to support and which only the commercialization of space can accomplish.
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(2008). Commercial applications of space tourism. In: Tourists in Space. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74644-9_8
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