MARKET AND SPACE TOURISM: ANALYSIS OF THE SPACEX COMPANY

Abstract

The growth of the commercial space industry demonstrates that there is an emerging business, after decades of development, we have never been so close of the Space Tourism consolidation. This article presents a brief introduction to the history of this kind of tourism to understand it's evolution, and an analysis of the three main companies in this segment. The study is based on a gathering of datas with focus on the tourism sector of this companies to examine their potentials. The research demonstrated that besides de restriction to an elevated social class, the offer is raising and there is demand, the companies are looking for methods to reduce the cost of the travels and make it more accessible. The conclusion is that, there is market that attend to different wills, despite their differences, they all look for the same thing, bring humanity further and further into space.