Space tourism projected to be $ 100 million industry by 2021 . `` This is just the beginning of the golden age of space flight , '' said Peter Diamandis , chairman of the X Prize Foundation , which awarded the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004 for the first privately funded human flight to the edge of space . 15,000 commercial space ventures operating worldwide . European aerospace company EADS projects More than a dozen space travelers by end of next decade .
Space tourism projected to be $ 100 million industry by 2021 . 15,000 commercial space ventures operating worldwide . European aerospace company EADS projects More than a dozen space travelers by end of next decade .