In case you missed Postcards from the Galaxy in Robb Report‘s January 2012 Travel Issue, the feature checks in on the industry of space tourism. Eleven years after the flight of the first space tourist, commercial space travel has blossomed into a projected $700 million industry. Now all mankind needs is a working spaceship, so stay tuned! I worked with New York–based writer Sarah Rose to develop this feature idea and edit the story.

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He’s a Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer who shares the latest in space science + technology news from the front lines at NASA. Find his latest blogs here: RocketScientistSays.wordpress.com

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