Launching rockets into orbit is an expensive business. So costly that, thus far, only government space agencies or government-related companies have transported astronauts or satellites into space. Still, as Statista's Florian Zandt details below,the private space industry has been booming in the last couple of years, with companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX providing varying degrees of suborbital and orbital space travel and transportation. In 2022, according to Bryce Tech,…