Companies Expand Commercial Human Spaceflight Offerings

Irene Klotz December 16, 2021
Blue Origin New Shepard capsule spaceflight
A jubilant Michael Strahan, co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” emerges from the Blue Origin New Shepard capsule after a 10-min. ride in suborbital space.
Credit: Blue Origin Webcast
As 2021 draws to a close, for a brief time the number of private space travelers is nearly matching the number of professional astronauts in space, with commercial missions by Blue Origin and Space Adventures overlapping crewed flights underway aboard government-owned space stations to bring the...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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