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SpaceX tourist trips to space station reportedly to cost $55 million each:
A trio of space tourists will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in a SpaceX capsule, after Axiom Space made a deal with Elon Musk's company on Thursday. The first 10-day trip could happen in the latter half of next year, the company said in a release.
However, it won't be cheap -- a seat could set you back around $55 million, the New York Times reported, and one person has already signed up. Two days will be spent traveling to and from the space station, and eight on board. The tourists will be accompanied by an Axiom astronaut who'll make sure they don't distract the ISS crewmembers.
"This will be just the first of many missions to ISS to be completely crewed and managed by Axiom Space -- a first for a commercial entity," Axiom boss Michael T. Suffredini said in a statement. "Procuring the transportation marks significant progress toward that goal, and we're glad to be working with SpaceX in this effort."
Previously:
SpaceX Announces Partnership to Send Four Tourists Into Deep Orbit
(Score: 3, Touché) by FatPhil on Monday March 09 2020, @10:16PM (2 children)
> Your example of a milionaire and poor person doesn't even pass the laugh test.
Au contraire, I'm laughing at your attempt to turn "average middle class" into "poor".
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:07PM (1 child)
A good portion of the average middle class struggles for everything they get. I personally know some.
What we once considered the average middle class has largely disappeared and been replaced by what we once called poor.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:53PM
AC here who mentioned earlier that only 39% [forbes.com] of households earning $250k+ per year choose to purchase luxury cars, while 8% of those earning less than $250k do so. This datum, alone, also explains the "struggling" middle class. Don't see why? Around 2% [politifact.com] of all American households earn > $250k+ per year, so 98% do not.
This means that the $100k 'market share' = (0.08 * 98) / ( (0.08 * 98) + (0.39 * 2)) * 100 = ~91%. In other words, 91% of luxury cars are sold to people living in households earning less than $100k per year. That is *insanely* stupid, but such is the nature of people. Things such as this are the one and only reason somebody would "struggle" in a middle class life now a days. People need to live below their means. Most people instead choose to live at and above them. And then complain that life is hard.