Brief notes about a few space tourism-related articles that appeared over the last few days:

• In this week’s issue of The Space Review, Alex Howerton offers an “appreciation” of last month’s X Prize Cup, emphasizing that despite the failure of any competitors to win prizes, the event is a big step forward for the NewSpace industry. “The sense of failure, if there is one, stems from the difference between our expectations and reality. We get impatient; we want to go to space now, and we can’t be bothered to wait until the system actually works.”
• Also in TSR, Sam Dinkin interviews Jessica French, who, besides being the daughter of Rocketplane Kistler president George French, worked for Virgin Galactic at its display at the EAA AirVenture show last year. Oh, and she also designed the logo for Dinkin’s skill game venture, SpaceShot.
• Shanghai Daily reports that an unnamed young Chinese businessman will be the country’s first space tourist, flying on Virgin Galactic in 2008.