[njarboe]

If cost per pound to orbit drops by 100-1000 times with the advent of SpaceX's Starship rocket, who knows what kinds of space activities will be profitable.

If it only costs $1 million to immigrate to Mars, you might be surprised how many people would give it a try and how many billionaires would sponsor whole colonies. Like when Europeans colonized North America.

[XorNot]

The cost to orbit drops being talked about are going to put space tourism solidly within reach of the middle class.

At that point the market becomes basically infinite: it'll be a standard rite of passage to see Earth from space, much like how people go to Disneyland.

[mLuby]

It'll be like skydiving or visiting Everest basecamp or Antarctica.

Maybe soon you'll pop open the window on one of these new suborbital flights and skydive from the black back to Earth!

[kiba]

Tourism is the least exciting value proposition to me. Industry and commercial activity is where it's at.