What Should We Call People Who get to Vacation in Space? More and more I seem to keep finding articles that talk of the potential for space travel on a commercial level. Yes, one day it may be possible for you to take a week off work and orbit around the planet. Call me a nerd but that sounds like a great time. Granted, I know we are years away from this but it is really fun to think about. The reason I am even talking about his today is due to the fact that once again I saw another interesting article talking about commercial space travel. It points out that thanks to companies like Space X ordinary people will be able to travel into space and spend time there. Obviously, these are people with much deeper pockets than you and I. None the less one day civilians will be in space. But what are people supposed to call them?