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Got $50 Million for a Vacation? Stay at the International Space Station!

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday June 11 2019, @08:31PM   
from the out-of-this-world-vacation dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

NASA will allow private citizens to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for month-long getaways at a cost of about $35,000 per night, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

[...] But the ride won't be cheap.

NASA estimated the cost of a flight would be around $50 million per seat. In addition, NASA will charge visitors for food, storage and communication once at the station.

"If you look at the pricing and you add it up, back of a napkin, it would be roughly $35,000 a night, per astronaut," NASA's Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit told a news conference in New York.

"But it won't come with any Hilton or Marriott points," DeWit deadpanned.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-nasa/got-50-million-for-a-vacation-nasa-to-open-space-station-to-private-citizens-idUSKCN1T81U6

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• Re:A whole month? (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:14PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday June 11 2019, @09:14PM (#854378) Journal

  The daily cost is almost nothing compared to the cost of the ride up. They should put some Bigelow inflatable modules up there and let people stay up to 180 days (about how long you can have Crew Dragon or Starliner docked with ISS).

  Ticket price could decline to as little as $20 million for Crew Dragon (max 7 passengers), and a lot less for BFR, which would also provide more volume than the entire ISS.

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