Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are among companies that are offering or plan to offer space tourism experiences to paying customers. The offerings range from $250,000 to $55 million for a space flights of different orbits and durations. One goal is to show space tourists that space travel is safe, routine, and reliable. This can propel societal openness to the expansion of the industry and to putting humanity into space. In turn, this could open the doors to planned economic activities such as asteroid mining and expeditions to the moon and Mars.

How can the space tourism industry address some of these concerns?