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Why Do Ultra-Wealthy Individuals Risk Life and Health for Orbital Space Tourism?

On September 12, 2024, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman depressurized the cabin of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and pulled himself through an open forward hatch into the vacuum of space 740 kilometers above Earth. That maneuver during the five-day Polaris Dawn mission followed an orbital climb to an apogee of 1,400.7 kilometers, the farthest any human had traveled from Earth since the Apollo 17 lunar mission in 1972. Unlike a passive luxu…
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New Space Economy broke the news on Saturday, October 24, 2026.
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