Space tourism is still costly and challenging, but an inspirational visit to America's great aviation and space museums and destinations is easy to pull off.

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. – On Florida’s Space Coast, about an hour from Orlando, you can trade roller coasters for real rockets. During my recent Daytrippers visit to Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, ...

Twenty years ago, on a clear October morning, the business of commercial space tourism quietly took off in the California desert. That’s when Mojave Aerospace successfully launched a manned spaceship ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums where you can learn about the science of outer space and the history of space travel. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick ...

While Space X, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic may have captured the imaginations of Americans when it comes to the potential of space travel, these three well-known names are not the only contenders ...

For the generations of people that grew up watching shuttle launches on television or even in person, there’s little that's more magical than the thought of going to space. When the shuttle program ...

From landing on the moon to navigating the Mars rover, NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — has captured the imagination of children and adults alike since its founding in 1958.

U.S. News Insider Tip: Splurge on the Astronaut Training Experience where you can "train" to go to Mars by "walking" on the red planet and take Spacewalk Training using zero-gravity chairs in a ...

Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can't survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes. Getting to space involves being strapped to a barely contained chemical explosion ...

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women – Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez – on a suborbital journey to the edge of space. The headlines ...

Blue Origin’s successful launch of a celebrity-studded, all-women spaceflight on April 14 had lots of people seeing stars. Google searches related to space tourism skyrocketed in the days after, and ...