For many years, space tourism has been a blossoming industry, stimulating development and financial investments for many companies. Much of the research and studies of the past decades has begun to come to fruition, as many of these companies begin to plan their first launches of manned vehicles.

The Clementine Space Probe was a short-lived NASA mission using a robotic spacecraft. In 1994, the probe was launched to the Moon to study a variety of different facets of the lunar surface. While in orbit, one of the studies possibly located the presence of water on the Moon.

Dr. Jill Tarter is the Director of the Center for SETI Research, the program that searches the sky for alien life using radio frequencies. Tarter is one of the most awarded scientists working in the field of astronomy today and notable for her alleged influence in Carl Sagan’s “Contact” novel.

Dr. Carolyn Porco is an imaging scientist famous for working on the Voyager and Cassini missions to Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. She is also in charge of the upcoming New Horizons imaging mission to Pluto and Kuiper Belt.

The seaplane is a vehicle designed like a fix-wing aircraft, but also has the ability to land and take off from water. This makes the impacts of the seaplane an asset to those in need of transportation to areas that do not have established landing strips.