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SpaceX Tourist Trips to Space Station Reportedly to Cost $55 Million Each

posted by janrinok on Monday March 09 2020, @02:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-that-worth-in-Martian-zlonks? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

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

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:30PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday March 10 2020, @02:30PM (#969055) Homepage
    The easiest way to know that something wasn't spendable in their lifetime is to tax it at the point of inheritance, which you already do AFAIUI (if you're a millionaire or so). (Yes, there are probably sneaky ways round that, and if so what you want to do is close down loopholes through a simplification of the system (e.g. the tax upon distribution we have here, it doesn't matter what way you got something, every route is taxed equally) rather than introduce new ways of skimming.)
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