space flight fare / tourism

hi everyone,

i was just wondering if someone knew how much would it cost a private
citizen to go in a space flight? or maybe to the moon?

pasky

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:53:26 +0400, "Pasky"
wrote:
i was just wondering if someone knew how much would it cost a private
citizen to go in a space flight? or maybe to the moon?

Right now the price is US$20 million for a trip and short stay on the
ISS (Mr. Titto's excellent adventure). Not sure if you could repeat
it with enen that much money now thanks to NASA...

"Doc Holliday" wrote in message
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:53:26 +0400, "Pasky"
wrote:
i was just wondering if someone knew how much would it cost a private
citizen to go in a space flight? or maybe to the moon?

Right now the price is US$20 million for a trip and short stay on the
ISS (Mr. Titto's excellent adventure). Not sure if you could repeat
it with enen that much money now thanks to NASA...

I think Mr Rutan and friends are planning to offer a very short (minutes)
suborbital trip for around $100 thousand, IIRC.

Next step up is, as mentioned by the previous poster, $20 million for a week
on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, including a few days aboard the ISS. This
trip is subject to NASA approval, and private trips aren't likely to resume
until the shuttle is flying again and the station is back to normal
operations.

Moon trips are particularly expensive, since there isn't a way to get people
to the moon right now. The R&D costs would push the cost of a moon trip into
the $50-100 billion range, but the second flight will be much cheaper
(hundreds of millions).

All trips will require a reasonable level of fitness and willingness to
learn things (a bit physics and maths wouldn't hurt, and fluency in Russian
is likely to be useful for the Soyuz trip, but isn't essential). You can
expect to wait a few years before a spot on Mr Rutan's craft or the Soyuz is
available. The moontrip will require a waiting time of about a decade.

--Chris