Travel Tips From a Real Space Tourist: Get Ready to Feel Awful

One of the first tourists to travel in outer space can be a bit of a buzzkill. Sure, he loved every minute—even if he was physically miserable part of the time. The next wave of space tourists will need a high tolerance for discomfort.

If all goes according to plan, Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will send two paying civilians around the moon and back some time next year. “My advice to them would be to medicate early and often,” says Richard Garriott de Cayeux, the video game developer and entrepreneur who paid $30 million to Russia’s Space Adventures to spend 12 days aboard the International Space Station. His moon-voyaging counterparts have put down a “significant deposit,” according to a post last week on SpaceX's website, but the total price and the identities of the tourists have not been disclosed.