Space Tourism
An episode of The Jetsons titled “Good Little Scouts” in 1962 featured a Cub Scouts troop taking a day trip to outer space and the moon. They visit the “Moonhattan Tilton Hotel,” introducing millions to the idea of space tourism.
These days, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has invested billions in the industry of space tourism, and so far his company has launched four private citizens into space and back. Bezos may have grander ideas of living in space permanently and visiting the Earth as a form of tourism, as he detailed on Lex Friedman’s podcast, but that vision has yet to come true.
