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from the what's-that-worth-in-Martian-zlonks? dept.
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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 10 2020, @04:12PM
That's, again, a stereotype - not reality.
61% [forbes.com] of households earning > $250k per year drive Hondas, Toyas, and Fords. The most common preference being Hondas. Great quality and great price. Those are the sort of decisions that attract the rich. That also misses some nuance. A friend's preferred vehicle is Audi and he tends to always have a ride that's at most 1-2 years old. But there's a catch. He is probably the most frugal man I know. If he can get a tax refund on a single paper clip, he'll certainly be grabbing that receipt and claiming that $0.01. With cars he discovered a little 'trick'. He buys the latest model - 1 year. A year later he trades it in, for the next latest model - 1 year. Turns out that the depreciation in price after the first year is *extremely* low, so his 'lease' (in terms of the value lost per month) ends up being less than what you'd pay for e.g. a Honda Civic.
So optically it looks like he's spending a lot - in practice he's probably spending less than the guy with a 4 year old accord in the driveway! Obviously not a 'trick' most could afford to do, but it emphasizes that people don't get rich (let alone stay that way) by living anything like the stereotypes. If you live in a middle class neighborhood, there's a pretty decent chance one or more of your neighbors is a millionaire. There's about 12 million [nypost.com] millionaire households in the US, and that number is skyrocketing as more people are finding their way to riches.