SpaceX, a space transportation services company and aerospace manufacturer-- owned by billionaire Elon Musk, is now offering non-astronauts or tourists to travel with them in deep space. Here's the catch. If you're friends with Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates or you know their bank accounts, the space travel fare would be a bargain price for you. If not, Houston, we have a problem!
Elon Musk's SpaceX tourist space travel is cheap-- if you're Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates
As first reported via the New York Times, Axiom Space-- a company run by a former manager of NASA's part of the space station, had announced on Thursday that regular people can now travel with them in space, seat on where astronauts seat, eat on where they eat and see what they see outside of the world.
"I think you'll see a lot more energy in the market as people come to realize it's real, and it's happening," said Michael T. Suffredini, the president and chief executive of Axiom.
Apparently, the company signed a contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to travel additional three non-astronauts in order to make this very first possible fully private human spaceflight to travel across space.
If you are aiming to go to space, make sure that you contact now the Axiom Space or SpaceX as only two seats are now available on their spacecraft. According to NYT, one of the available space travel seats was already taken by a somehow multi-millionaire that does not want to be identified.
How much is the ticket?
Whether you have lots of millions of dollars to spare or just madly want to be in deep space, Axiom Space did not provide detailed how much will be the ticket price for space travel. However, Axiom already confirmed in the past that an amount of $55 million is the usual ticket price for their future private space travel.
For those people that will avail of the last two remaining tickets, Axiom Space guarantees that you will be experiencing extreme out-of-this-world space travel. Clients are reportedly be using SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule wherein they will be joined with a company-trained astronaut who would serve as the flight commander of the spacecraft.
Tourists will be able to stay eight days on the lab and additional two days traveling to and from the space, which brings a total of ten days of deep space travel.
"Crew will live aboard the ISS and experience ... microgravity and views of Earth that can only be fully appreciated in the large, venerable station," said Axiom Space.
The space launch will be scheduled in late 2021.
NASA approves private space flights
National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA approves of companies dealing with private space flights in order to achieve budgets for their next space missions.
"NASA has been very forward-leaning, and we're taking advantage of that," said Suffredini.
