SpaceX is Offering to Take Private Customers to Space, Again
Once again, Elon Musk's company SpaceX has revealed that it will be taking up to four private citizens into space in a new deal with a company called Space Adventures.
Not sure why anyone would want to pay someone money to be the first non-astronaut to be launched this far into the dark freezing death vacuum that is outer space, but here's an excerpt from the Space Adventures press release in case you are interested:
Space Adventures, Inc. has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to fly private citizens on the first Crew Dragon free-flyer mission. This will provide up to four individuals with the opportunity to break the world altitude record for private citizen spaceflight and see planet Earth the way no one has since the Gemini program.
If interested parties are secured, this mission will be the first orbital space tourism experience provided entirely with American technology. Private citizens will fly aboard SpaceX’s fully autonomous Crew Dragon spacecraft launched by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, the same spacecraft and launch vehicle that SpaceX will use to transport NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
That opening line of the second paragraph suggests that there may still be spots available on this trip if you want to get in touch with the good people at Space Adventures. The flight is supposed to launch sometime before early 2022; but that could be in jeopardy considering the SpaceX track record with commercial space flights they've sold in the past.
Back in 2017, SpaceX announced that it had sold 2 separate trips to private customers that were supposed to launch before the end of 2018, but those never happened. Instead, before the 2018 launch was supposed to happen, SpaceX announced that it had turned the private commercial voyage into a sex-romp for 1 Japanese billionaire to orbit the moon. Nobody knows what happened to the other customers from 2017, and so I'm not really sure if you can bank on this "Space Adventures" thing going through either, but we will see.
At least it appears for now that you would not have to sleep with a Japanese billionaire to get on the Space Adventures flight, just fork over an "undisclosed" amount of money.
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