Space tourism has yet to take off October 5, 2009 LOS ANGELES — When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10-million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he’d be on a rocket ride of his own soon. LOS ANGELES — When a private spaceship soared over California to claim a $10-million prize, daredevil venture capitalist Alan Walton was 68 and thought he’d be on a rocket ride of his own soon. Walton paid $200,000 to be among the first space tourists to make a suborbital thrill-ride high above the Earth, aboard a Virgin Galactic spaceship. Now ...