Istanbul Gelisim University IISBF SosyoCom: Monthly Events and News Bulletin (Issue: 12, December 2021)

The “space race” among billionaires continues. In recent months, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company, Elon Musk's SpaceX space company, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space company have organized tourist trips to space. The purpose of these companies is to increase commercial flights by sending non-astronauts into space. It is foreseen that in the future it will become commonplace to live and work in space, explore different planets, engage in tourist activities to discover the wonders of space, mine satellites and asteroids, and transport cargo. This will lead to the emergence of a previously unimaginable market in aviation. However, for now, we have to look for aviation activities related to the space market in our imaginations.