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World View Enterprises, Inc. is a new venture (date: Oct. 2013) headed by veteran space entrepreneurs plans to send tourists on a balloon up to an altitude of 19 miles, to give them the kind of spacey view that Felix Baumgartner saw last year — at a price of about $75,000 a ticket.

Arizona-based World View Enterprises said it would offer 30-kilometer-high balloon rides starting no earlier than 2016. It plans to start selling tickets sometime in the next few months, even as it continues development of its balloon and pressurized gondola in Tucson.

The company unveiled its plans on Tuesday 22 Oct. 2013, after the Federal Aviation Administration determined that the venture would follow the rules that govern commercial spaceflight rather than the more stringent rules for atmospheric balloon trips. World View says has completed some component testing for the balloon system and will begin subscale testing early next year.

The World View balloon wouldn't get anywhere near the internationally accepted 100-kilometer (62-mile) boundary of outer space, and riders wouldn't feel any zero-gravity sensation. But the experience would give them the kind of black-sky view associated with high-altitude balloon flights — like the ones that have put cameras, action figures and a Hello Kitty doll into the stratosphere.

Galactic Suite is a concept of space hotel designed for outer space.

The 'space resort' is designed to orbit the earth at a distance of 450 km, and at a speed of 30,000km, and will accommodate a maximum of four guests and two astronaut-pilots. The first Galactic Suite is due for completion in 2015. The project will establish an integrated space-based tourism concept. It will consist of three pillars; spaceport, spaceship and the space hotel. 

Armadillo Aerospace is an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas, USA. 

Armadillo Aerospace is a developer of reusable rocket powered vehicles. Its initial goal is to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, but it has stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. 

The company is focused on VTVL (vertical takeoff, vertical landing) suborbital research and passenger flights, with an eye towards paths to orbit.

Founded in 2000, we Armadillo Aerospace has an experience base with over two hundred flight tests spread over two dozen different vehicles. The company has flown vehicles at every X-Prize Cup event. 

Its initial goal is to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, but it has stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. 

Space Adventures Ltd. is a USA-based space tourism company.

The company is offering zero-gravity atmospheric flights, orbital spaceflights (with the option to participate in a spacewalk), and other spaceflight-related experiences including cosmonaut training, spacewalk training, and launch tours. For the future the company announces sub-orbital and lunar spaceflights.

Starchaser Industries is a privately held, high technology group of companies that specialises in the development, operation and commercialisation of space related products and services.

Starchaser Industries focuses on the space tourism and micro-satellite launch markets.

Bristol Spaceplanes is a British company dedicated to spaceplane design.

It was founded in 1991 to realise low-cost access to space. Its clients include ESA, and its work has been used to further NASA studies on reusable launch vehicles and space tourism. Bristol Spaceplanes' designs have been the subject of feasibility studies from ESA and the UK Department of Trade and Industry.

Swiss Space Systems (S3) is a company which plans to provide orbital launches of small satellites and suborbital spaceflights to space tourists.

The company is based at Payerne Airport in western Switzerland, where it plans to build a spaceport in 2015. Suborbital spaceplanes will be launched from an Airbus A300, giving the spacecraft more initial speed and altitude than if it were launched from the ground. The spacecraft, in turn, will release a disposable third stage. The company targets to charge 10 million CHF for a launch, using unmanned suborbital spaceplanes that could carry satellites weighing up to 250 kilos (550 pounds). The costs are reduced by the reusable nature of the spaceplane and other launch facilities and by a lower fuel-consumption than conventional systems.

The spaceplane will also provide suborbital spaceflights to tourists, with the addition of a pressurised module.

Zero2Infinity SL, headquarted in Barcelona Spain, is a company designing a new concept of space tourism based on a ballon, called Bloon.

SPACE is an Indian company churning out innovative and exciting hands-on astronomy education and astro-tourism services.

The company offers a set of products ranging from recreational science solutions, skill development workshops, stress management, educative & entertaining activities that can be customized as per clients.

The Space Island Project is a project whose goal is to create a stand-alone commercial space infrastructure supporting manned business activities in Low Earth orbit (LEO) 400 to 500 miles above earth.

The Space Island Group is the organization behind this project, and plans to accomplish this through the use of technologies, vehicles and procedures developed by NASA and other aerospace companies.