A Psychological Evaluation of How Client Motivation Can Affect the Future of Space Tourism

Abstract

The growth of space tourism’s newest evolvement, of clients traveling to space, has contributed to a narrow sphere of those who are able to participate. The explanation to this trend is client motivation which is represented through multiple variables, chiefly policy and age. Previous research has made note that space tourism, specifically in its current form, has limited research relating to client motivation, but as space tourism is nonetheless gaining popularity it has led to clients and businesses acting in potentially uneducated and harmful ways respectively–due to lack of research on the topic. Data from Cleveland State Law Review was predominantly used to introduce the limbo period that space tourism is in policy-wise based, due to vague legal diction; and data from International E-Journal of Science, Medicine & Education was predominantly used to facilitate the disparity postured to elderly people’s opportunities to participate in space tourism. Overall, the findings were that even though space tourism is a type of tourism that is almost exclusively reserved for the younger upper-class, this doesn’t limit the profit in such a way, because of the limited participants, that disables the business from thriving and generating enough revenue to continue. Thus, “while client motivation can impact space tourism with it being in its infancy, the industry has not had enough upheavals, and it can still survive” (p. 4).