 Canadian Arrow
 - Reusable sub-orbital spacecraft being designed and built in an attempt to capture the X PRIZE.- da Vinci Project
- Developing a reusable three-man spacecraft to be launched from a hot air balloon as a registered entry for the X PRIZE.
- Anousheh Ansari Space Blog
- The first woman space tourist blogs about her experience getting to, and living at, the International Space Station.
- ANSARI X PRIZE (9)
- Learn about ANSARI X PRIZE, formerly X Prize, the space competition for non-governmental organizations to launch reusable manned spacecrafts into space. Sites offer background information, prize details, articles, multimedia, special race coverage, videos, and photo galleries of the space tourism competitions.
- Bigelow Aerospace
- Bigelow Aerospace's goal is to bring human space flight into the arena of commercial business. Follow the progress of their Genesis I spacecraft, designed to be an inflatable habitat, which was launched into space on July 12, 2006.
- Charles in Space
- Experience civilian space travel with Dr. Charles Simonyi. Follow along with his experience training for and travelling to the International Space Station as a civilian.
- First Space Tourist: Dennis Tito's Flight to Station Alpha
- A Space.com special report.
- Future of Flight: Space Travel Technology for the Next 100 Years
- SPACE.com special report covering space tourism and the development of space craft for civilian use.
- How Space Tourism Works
- Looks at who is involved, what space accommodations will be like, and who will get to go.
- International Symposium on Personal Spaceflight (ISPS)
- Annual symposium that explores the multi-faceted dimensions of personal spaceflight ranging from the technical developments necessary to achieve safe routine flight to and from and through space to the new personal business opportunities and economic benefits that will open in space and here on Earth.
- Lifeboat Foundation
- Nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to providing solutions that will safeguard humanity from the growing threat of terrorism and technological cataclysm by building "lifeboats" in space.
- National Spaceflight Training Center (NSTC)
- Spaceflight education and astronaut training facility for the general public which will be located near the NASA Johnson Space Centre in Clear Lake, Texas.
- Shuttleworth, Mark (4)
- Read about Mark Shuttleworth, the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space. Site features biography, videos, interview transcript, and audio archive of the space journey undertaken by the South African entrepreneur and patron of Ubuntu distribution system.
- Space - Wikitravel
- Learn about commercial space tourism -- space-related places on the Earth, parabolic flights, edge of space flights, sub-orbital flights, and orbital flight opportunities.
- Space Elevators, Space Hotels, and Space Tourism
- Research paper describing a conceptual design for a transportation system to carry passengers into space.
- Space Future
- Outlines why the goal of affordable travel to space for the general public is not only practical, but highly desirable.
- Space Tour
- Promoting businesses around the world with its space tourism sweepstakes. Competing for the X PRIZE.
- Space Tourism - AOL@Research & Learn
- Learn about space tourism in its present form and how space tourism might work in future. Site includes sections on travelling to space, zero-gravity flights, encyclopedia for space exploration, and relative message boards and news.
- Space Tourism - Wikipedia
- Article about space tourism, the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. Also learn about the commercial space flight companies that are working to corner the space tourist market.
- Space Tourism: A Multimedia Special Report
- SPACE.com's Part One: Where Only A Few Folks Have Gone Before tells the stories of the first space tourists as well as those of the private test pilots for the sub-orbital flights.
- Spaceport America
- Official site for Spaceport America, the world's first, purpose-built commercial spaceport. Learn about the New Mexico spaceport established for commercial space and reusable launch vehicles.
- SpaceShipOne@
- Find sites for SpaceShipOne and its carrier aircraft White Knight, the world's first privately funded manned space program. Sites feature background information, special reports, mission objectives and results, and launch video clips of the experimental air-launched suborbital spaceplace which used a hybrid rocket motor.
- The New Space Race - MSNBC
- Collection of articles and interactive multimedia features dedicated to the emerging private space exploration and travel industry, SpaceShipOne, and the X PRIZE.
- Virgin Galactic
- Commercial space craft developed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Learn about SpaceShipOne and the development of SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and its carrier WhiteKnightTwo.
- X PRIZE Cup (5)
- Find sites for X PRIZE Cup, an annual X Prize Foundation space expo designed to encourage innovation in the private sector. Sites feature expo details, event coverage, news articles, video, and photo galleries of the annual space expo also known as Wirefly X Prize Cup.
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