If you’ve got millions to spare and want to make space travel history, then now is your chance to book a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) – and perhaps even a spacewalk, too.
That’s something no private individual has ever done before, according to Tom Shelley, who heads the US company Space Adventures, which specializes in space tourism.
He sells the trip together with Russia. It is expensive, so not many people can afford it, he told dpa in Moscow.
The flight to the ISS with the Russian space agency Roscosmos costs the equivalent of up to $56 million. The spacewalk tour planned for 2023 or 2024 is likely to cost even more.
Although the collaboration between Russian and Western space companies and officials has become increasingly questioned amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, space tourism appears here to stay.
These brief, multi-million-dollar trips have already been making big headlines thanks to the travels of two billionaires in 2021. The first, British entrepreneur Richard Branson, blasted off into space in summer, followed shortly afterwards by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Bezos dispatched two more flights with a total of 10 passengers, including actor William Shatner, known to many as Captain Kirk from “Starship Enterprise.”
Bezos plans further brief trips into space in 2022 and has said demand for the tickets is very high. Branson is also said to be planning to offer flights.
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