This year's historic momentum in space tourism is expected to continue well into 2022 and beyond.
"We had thirteen human space flight missions, three private companies had milestone historic missions," said Chad Anderson, managing partner at Space Capital, a seed venture capital firm.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk's SpaceX all conducted missions throughout the year.
"The biggest of those was the all civilian Inspiration4 mission that launched with SpaceX," Anderson told Yahoo Finance Live. The journey went down in history as an all-civilian crew was launched into orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Fla. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)
