Bold steps

Austrian emperor Ludwig von Habsburg and duchess Sibyll von Wittgenstein-Pommern. The two founded the first open spaceports and thus triggered the first wave of space travel.

Fortune seekers, commodity traders, security providers, and lost people soon sought their fortune out there.

Waltraud the Younger, one of the first merchants entering space

One of the first shipyards, the Sybill Werke, still proudly bears the name of its founder.