The Obama administration is preparing for a space tourism industry that is expected to be worth $1 billion in 10 years, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office said on Tuesday. The U.S. Government anticipates several companies' flying tourists to outer space and back by 2014, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration's commercial space office said Tuesday. One of the leading company's cornering this market is Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip Two rocket plane. Zero-G will not come cheap. Tickets aboard Virgin Galactic, which include three days of flight training cost $200,000 per person. Ashton Kutcher star of television’s “Two and a Half Men,” became the 500th future astronaut to sign-up.
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