News Space tourism coming soon!!!

[count_volta]

Have people seen this yet?

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/03/23/virgin.space.flight/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

I thought the whole thing died after spaceship one. Apparently it didn't. Wow $200,000. Now even us engineers can go to space.

I must go someday. :woohoo:

The real question to you guys is, who will NOT go? I don't believe anyone at this forum would refuse.

 

[Artlav]

$200,000 for a leap of vomit?
You can buy a house on a mediterranean beach for these money.
Or feed your family for a century.
Or buy a crappy flat in Moscow.
Or... Whatever, if i had the money...

 

[SiberianTiger]

A zero-g leap aboard a MiG-31 costs $15,000.

 

[count_volta]

LOL crappy flat in Moscow. Or a crappy flat in Kiev. But the new apartments in Obolon arnt so bad. http://ukraine.t-p-i.net/images/Obolon.JPG

Anyway well yea, 200k is a little much. When it gets to around 50k I won't even hesitate. But this is the opportunity of a lifetime. So few people get to be astronauts.

If you get to go into Earth orbit and see earth from space, I won't even think about it. I'm going.

 

[Urwumpe]

For 200,000 I could imagine worse investments. For example a four-wheeled crude oil annihilator.

But still... 200,000 are a statement. I could make a huge party with my friends for this - for my whole life, every day. Even with all fascination for spaceflight, this doesn't yet beat it.

 

[DaveS]

If you get to go into Earth orbit and see earth from space, I won't even think about it. I'm going.

This is sub-orbital. Think of it as the operational version of SS1. Up and then down. All done in about 30-40 minutes with only 2-3 minutes of micro-g.

 

[Shadow Addict]

This is pretty old news, isn't it?

 

[Pablo49]

If I'm going to put up money to go into space, I want a serious space flight. Like more than a sub-orbital flight.

 

[Bj]

If I'm going to put up money to go into space, I want a serious space flight. Like more than a sub-orbital flight.

How about a stay at the ISS?

Only 20-35 Million...

The bigger/better something is, the more it costs.

 

[docabn]

I hope as many people as can do. I may never be able to afford 200K for a couple days training and an hour or two of fun, but the more people that can and do the better. I figure if enough people do by the time I can afford a 200K joy ride it will only cost 20K go higher and further.

 

[Pablo49]

The bigger/better something is, the more it costs.

Well, of course. I'm just saying I'd rather wait (not like I have the money for SS2 now as it is) until prices hopefully go down (preferably for orbital space tourism), and I suddenly win the lottery.

 

[jinglesassy]

If only it was 200,000 yen instead of 200,000 dollars then i could afford it

 

[barcode]

Aren't they hoping to bring the price down to something more affordable if the first few years of operation are successful?

 

[Bj]

Aren't they hoping to bring the price down to something more affordable if the first few years of operation are successful?

What, down to 100K or even 50K? Still a years salary is still better than 4 years, but I still wouldn't go for a 50 min ride.

 

[Unstung]

I hope as many people as can do. I may never be able to afford 200K for a couple days training and an hour or two of fun, but the more people that can and do the better. I figure if enough people do by the time I can afford a 200K joy ride it will only cost 20K go higher and further.

About 80,000 people have placed their names on the waiting list for seats.

Anyways, orbital flights will come. I bet easily within 20 years.

 

[Izack]

Anyways, orbital flights will come. I bet easily within 20 years.

That's the spirit! :thumbup:

 

[SiberianTiger]

$200,000 for a leap of vomit?
You can buy a house on a mediterranean beach for these money.
Or feed your family for a century.
Or buy a crappy flat in Moscow.
Or... Whatever, if i had the money...

That makes me think: will the flights they offer be ever available thorugh mortgaging? Imagine that: 4 minutes of a zero-G flight and then 20 years of paying off for that!

 

[johan]

An update just came in: http://www.virgingalactic.com/news/item/vss-enterprise-makes-its-first-crewed-flight/

 

[Columbia42]

Here's a site where you can actually book a flight!
http://www.spaceadventures.com/
I think the cirumlunar flight on a Soyuz spacecraft looks really cool however for that option you're not really buying seats. Instead you're really investing in the Russian space program (I can think of better places to put my money BTW) and if the circumlunar flights (Financed by your money) become possible, you will get a seat. That being said, I guess if I had $100 million lying around I might invest it in space exploration.

 

[Eccentrus]

well, can they retrofit the SpaceShip II to be able to house a small sattelite+booster and then launch it while in space?