While I wholeheartedly support Aisha Bowe’s message about inspiration, I want to clarify the use of the term "space tourism." Any reliable source that is not engaged in propaganda or "spacewashing" (the misleading use of labels) will confirm that the following is an accurate definition of space tourism: "Space tourism is another niche segment of the aviation industry that seeks to give tourists the ability to become astronauts and experience space travel for recreational, leisure, or business purposes." Section 17.5 "Space Tourism" in a 2019 publication "The Role of Niche Aviation Operations as Tourist Attractions" by Isaac Levi Henderson and Wai Hong Kan Tsui.

Perhaps the SpaceX landing would be easier to promote if it were named "Kalik and Kerosene" or "Rocket Junkanoo." Someone needs to write a song. Sharade Taylor and Sweet Emily??

LOOOL

Space tourism? Do the government ever know what was exactly landing there? It is the booster stage, not the payload, unless you want to attach "the tourists" to the booster stage... The booster stage is the first rocket stage, that propels the rocket and payload to leave the earth's atmosphere, then it returns empty on fuel and lands on a platform.

Regulations and infrastructure required to land the actual space-x-ship (payload) are completely different and is not going to happen in the Bahamas. So, NO, NO space tourists.

I was of the view that the space rocket would lsnd in the sea but if it is contained It should be all right I hope

Exactly what about this represents "innovation"? The factory that built the rocket isnt here neither are any of the *real* rocket scientists who designed, developed and tested it. We just use fancy words randomly to dress up *air*

So someone uses your country to land junk in it and you call it space tourism? These politicians really need to go.

So now the Exuma's are Musk's garbage can? Did anyone consider the environment or the residents?

How much did we get paid? Govt ducking that question.

**More time to spend swimming amongst the pigs of Exuma.** -- Chatter mounting @ComradeElon about his security pass needed to access the Trump White House. -- Will be the second casualty after Vivek "Most Annoying" Ramaswamy's quick sackin'. -- Even was disliked by Elon. -- Yes?

Who WE? How much did ?? get paid?

Doesn’t Falcon X land on a ship not strip?

My bad. Falcon 9

Falcon 9 reused? -- In total 45 recovered boosters have been refurbished and subsequently flown at least a second time, with a record of 25 launches and landings carried out by a single booster. -- Yes?

The Greeks’ deceptive gift of the wooden horse to the Trojans led to the cautionary idiom, “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.” A similar warning about Columbus and his ships might have benefited the indigenous Taino in 1492.

Today, as Elon Musk consolidates power in the United States, perhaps we should be wary of a Rocket Man bearing gifts—this time, not from within city walls but from above. (Manna from heaven, or something darker?) His immense wealth, corrupting influence, and ambitions to control not only U.S. society but global systems are cautionary examples.

That said, given Donald Trump’s well-documented contempt for countries like ours—exemplified, among other things, by his nomination of Herschel Walker as ambassador —perhaps we needn't worry. Musk, after all, appears to share much of the same disdain. Hopefully, even in the worst-case scenario of a rocket breakup, his corporation sees us as nothing more than a convenient landing site for booster rockets. And lest I forget, a source of temptation for our decision-makers—one more chapter in the same old story when it comes to wealthy foreign interests.