Tourists in Space

Dr. Erik Seedhouse worked as an Astronaut Training Consultant for Bigelow Aerospace in 2005 and wrote their Spaceflight Participants Flight Surgeon’s Manual, the precursor to Tourists in Space. He also developed astronaut-training protocols for future spaceflight participants and wrote and edited several chapters of Bigelow Aerospace’s Astronaut Training Manual. Dr. Seedhouse is a manned spaceflight consultant and research scientist specializing in environmental life sciences and physiology, the subject in which he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology while working for the European Space Agency between 1996 and 1998. In 2009, he was one of the final candidates for selection as an astronaut in the CSA’s Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. He is a certified commercial suborbital astronaut who will fly a payload mission in 2014. He is also Training Director for Astronauts for Hire and between 2008 - 2013, served as Director of Canada’s Manned Centrifuge Operations.

• The Space Tourism Industry.- Space Tourism: A Short History.- Market and Industry.- Spaceports.- Suborbital Missions.- Suborbital Operators.- Suborbital Vehicles.- Medical and Training Requirements.- Orbital and Beyond Orbit Missions.- Orbital Operators.- Missions.- Medical and Training Requirements.

"The book is written with authority and humour and if you have any interest in going to space it's a good read. You'll learn lots." (Malcolm Gough, The Observatory, Vol. 135 (1246), June, 2015)