space tourism

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Warren Deyampert is docked Tuesday as a member of the Coast Guard walks past at Coast Guard Base Boston.

World News

The missing submersible raises troubling questions for the adventure tourism industry

2:26pm June 22, 2023

The search for the Titan in the North Atlantic continues. When adventure travel goes wrong, who pays the price, and who's forced to take big risks mounting a rescue?

Queue Listen Now

Space companies like Blue Origin are grabbing headlines with the promise of a new era of space tourism, mostly recently with the plan to send William Shatner to the edge of space. But unless you're lucky, space is still out of reach for most of the public

Science

William Shatner is bound for space, but the rest of us will have to wait

5:00am October 11, 2021

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

New space companies are touting space tourism. But so far the final frontier has been the playground of the rich or famous, plus a few everyday folks who had a bit of luck.