Space Business

The private sector is making its way out of the atmosphere to launch astronauts and satellites on reusable rockets. Government space agencies are eager to partner with pathbreaking companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin; and business plans based on luxury space hotels, mining water from the moon, and yes, even colonizing Mars, are attracting private funding like never before. But can the space business be profitable, or is it just an exciting way for billionaires to live out their fantasies?