Management Decision Strategies in Commercial Spaceflight Tourism: Exploring Stakeholder Attitudes and Environmental Implications of Suborbital and Orbital Travel

Commercial suborbital and orbital travel present a promising opportunity for the sustained advancement of outer space exploration and the popularisation of the Commercial Spaceflight Tourism (CST) phenomenon. But, despite the optimistic outlook space exploration carries for humanity and science, CST trips have left their mark on the Earth's atmosphere and outer layers in several ways, raising questions and doubts among the program's stakeholders about such initiatives' environmental implications and placing emphasis on how this can affect these key players attitude towards space travel in a way that may impede the long-term growth of the CST market. Therefore, this study extends the knowledge of the past few decades of scholarly work on stakeholder theory, while correlating it with the notion of space flight missions, the launch phases, and the detrimental effects they yield. This work also uncovers the conceptual relation of stakeholders and thus determines how different environmental factors can shift the attitudes and power attributes of the sector's stakeholders.