One of the issues that space tourism operators will have to cope with as they ramp up operations in the coming years is what health requirements they set for their customers. Be too restrictive and you may exclude too many people, yet be too permissive and passengers could suffer injuries, or die, on flights, opening the door for business-destroying bad publicity and lawsuits. In a brief article in The Space Review I summarize some of these considerations, based on presentations on the topic made at the ISDC in LA a couple months ago. There are a lot of questions that have yet to be answered here, but will have to be answered in one way or another as the suborbital space tourism industry develops in the next several years.
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