Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Sidebars -- WHAT SPACE IS -- WHY IT'S SO HARD TO GET US INTO SPACE -- GROWTH OF THE COMMERCIAL SPACE INDUSTRY -- TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GETTING TO SPACE -- WHAT THE NASA/SPACE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION SPACE TOURISM STUDY FOUND -- LARGE G FORCES YOU CAN EXPERIENCE ON EARTH -- MIDDLE-AGED AMERICAN MEN AS A POSSIBLE MARKET FOR SPACE TOURISM -- THE COST OF GLOBAL WARMING -- SOME TYPICAL VACATION COSTS (PER PERSON RATES EXCEPT WHERE NOTED) -- THE X PRIZE AT A GLANCE -- POSSIBLE WAYS OF FUNDING SPACE DEVELOPMENT -- HOW GOVERNMENT-FINANCED SPACE PROJECTS WORK -- THE ROLE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN COMMERCIALIZING SPACE -- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOON ROCKS? -- ANATOMY OF A SPACE ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION: THE SPACE FRONTIER FOUNDATION (SFF) -- AMERICANS' SPENDING HABITS -- HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS -- WEALTHY AMERICANS AND TRAVEL -- U.S. TRAVEL TRENDS -- PRIMER ON PROPULSION -- ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF PROPULSION -- Foreword, by Dr. Fiorella Terenzi -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Cast of Characters -- Introduction: Why Aren't We There Already? -- Chapter 1: Space Tourism? Where'd They Come Up with an Idea Like That? -- Chapter 2: Tom Rogers: Moving Space Tourism From Page Zero To Page One -- Chapter 3: Harvey Wichman: You Can't Throw Your Socks on the Floor in a Spacecraft -- Chapter 4: Space and the Body: Are We Robust Enough to Venture Out? -- Chapter 5: Patrick Collins: Would You Pay 25,000 for a Space Vacation? -- Chapter 6: Peter Diamandis, Buzz Aldrin, and Ron Jones: How in Tarnation Are We Going to Get Off the Earth? -- Chapter 7: Kirby Ikin, Tom Olson, and Paul Contursi: The Bottom Line-Funding and Insurance -- Chapter 8: Robert Zubrin: The Fast Track To Mars -- Chapter 9: Wendell Mendell: Mooning Over the Past -- Chapter 10: Greg Bennett: To the Moon -- Chapter 11: What's Up with NASA?.

Chapter 12: John Lewis: Raw Materials From the Sky -- Chapter 13: Jim Benson: Space Entrepreneur Extraordinaire -- Chapter 14: Denise Norris: Marketing Space -- Chapter 15: Charles Miller: Legislating Space -- Chapter 16: Rick Tumlinson and James George: Advocating Space -- Chapter 17: Alonzo Fyfe: But Is It the Right Thing to Do? -- Chapter 18: Alan Wasser: Who Owns Space? -- Chapter 19: Rene Schaad: Space Around the World-This One, That Is -- Chapter 20: Whither Humans in Space? -- Epilogue: Dennis Tito: The Breakthrough That Almost Occurred ... and the One That Did -- Appendix A: Space Tourism Market Issues Expanded -- Appendix B: Space Tourism Market Surveys -- Appendix C: Regulatory Issues -- Appendix D: Propulsion -- Appendix E: Bibliography -- Glossary -- About the Author -- Index.