Space Tourism is the new type of tourism that created a buzz in the tourism sector after the successful landing of SpaceX craft to Earth. In this scenario, the study aims to find the sentiments of individuals regarding space tourism on Twitter. The study used Python programming to extract the tweets and used R programming to analyze tweets' sentiments. The analysis shows that most individuals show trust, and they are anticipating when we can travel to space. Also, few people fear and have negative sentiments regarding the possible ill effects out of it. However, the majority are excited about space tourism.
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